The once-conservative cartoonist became a liberal atheist after watching The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints ...

Goldwater was no doubt referring to Ezra Taft Benson, Steve’s grandfather and a powerful figure as Dwight Eisenhower’s ...

For decades, Steve Benson poked fun at the state’s political figures — first in the pages of the Arizona Republic, and more ...

Political cartoonist Steve Benson believed I was wrong about everything. But we had one thing in common that mattered more ...

As a scion of LDS hierarchy, Steve’s life and career would become entwined in Arizona politics and cultural Mormonism as it merged in a single, historic figure named Evan Mecham.

PHOENIX — Evan Mecham, the only Arizona governor to be impeached, tried and ejected from office, died late Thursday at the Arizona State Veteran Home after a lengthy illness.