Evan Mecham, the feisty, ultra-conservative Pontiac dealer whose turbulent tenure as governor deeply divided Arizona and prompted his impeachment in 1988, died Thursday after a long illness.

Evan Mecham, a firebrand conservative who served 15 months as Arizona's governor before a dramatic impeachment trial removed him from office in 1988, died Thursday, a former aide said.

His Evan Mecham week. The only question that remains is, will Arpaio have an Evan Mecham fate. It was 27 years ago, at just about this time of year, ...

Evan Mecham served 15 months as governor before being impeached and convicted, but the fallout from his time in office reverberated in the state’s politics for decades.

Evan Mecham, 83, the Arizona governor impeached, indicted and subjected to a recall campaign in 1988 for misuse of state funds and his inflammatory racial opinions, died Feb. 21 at a Phoenix hospice.

Ev Mecham had a rather, ahem, troubled time of it in the governor's office. He took office in January 1987 and departed abruptly 16 months later. He was not the most popular Arizona governor, ...

Former Arizona Gov. Evan Mecham angrily points his finger at a prosecution lawyer during testimony in his Senate impeachment trial in Phoenix in this March 17, 1988 file photo.

Mecham was Trump-like (or Trump-lite) In those days, the elected governor of Arizona was Evan Mecham, a Trump-like (or Trump-lite) ...

Mecham at first brushed off the strips, but then threatened legal action. He apparently never followed through. The Monday following the Mecham series, the strip began with a box saying, “We ...

Evan Mecham served 15 months as governor before being impeached and convicted, but the fallout from his time in office reverberated in the state’s politics for decades.

But party-line voting will haunt the state because Diane Douglas has been likened to "Evan Mecham on steroids." If you thought our state was going to escape major embarrassment on the national ...