Pedro "Pete" Noriega Estrada
13 May 1891 - 10 Jul 1980
bornTempe, Arizona, USA
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BiographyBusiness owner; Maricopa County court interpretor and law librarian.Salesman for Tempe Coal Co. in 1914.
Clerk for Mazon-Estrada in 1916.
By 1919, with his brother Ramon, he owned several businesses on Mill Avenue, including the Estrada
Brothers Grocery [1921], a barber shop, a restaurant, and a pool hall. By 1917, the Estrada brothers bought 40 acres south of Tempe and started a cotton farm, but lost land and investments in the Cotton Crash of 1920. In 1922, he was involved in the successful election campaigns for two Superior Court judges. In 1923, he was hired as a court interpretor. He assumed responsibility for maintaining the court's small law library, and eventually his title was
changed to County Law Librarian. He retired in 1968, ending a 45-year career with the Maricopa County Superior Court.
In May 1915, he helped organize hispanic residents of Tempe to form Lodge No. 1 of the Liga Protectora Latina. He was actively involved with the Arizona Democratic Party and the Alianza Hispano-Americana. Tempe Precinct Committeeman for District 1 for the Democratic Party, c1930-1970. In the 1940s, he was elected to the Supreme Council of the Alianza Hispano-Americana
He was involved in organizing Viva Kennedy Clubs in 1960.
The Tempe park at Palomino Rd. and Kachina Dr. was named in his honor.
Lived at several places in Tempe, including 1st Street in East Tempe (1910); 927 Van Ness Avenue (1914), 1923; 619 S. Mill Avenue (1919,21]; and 402 W. 7th Street (1958-1980).
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Federal census (Tempe), 1900, 1910
Florence Catholic church, marriage register, 1878
TDN, 26 Apr 1971
Ralph Estrada obit, TDN, 5 Oct 1979
Pete Estrada obit, TDN, 11 Jul 1980
Tempe CD, 1913-1921, '23
Peterson, Twentieth Century Journey to Cibola
McBride, Liga Protectora Latina
Solliday, Journey to Rio Salado, pp. 95, 105, 119
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