John Shadegg

John Barden Shadegg (born October 22, 1949) is the former U.S. Representative for Arizona's 3rd congressional district, serving from 1995 until 2011. He is a member of the Republican Party.

The district, numbered as the 4th District before the 2000 Census, includes much of northern Phoenix.

Early life, education and career

Shadegg is the son of the former Eugenia Kerr and Stephen Shadegg, both deceased. The senior Shadegg supported Barry Goldwater's 1952, 1958, 1968, 1974, and 1980 U.S. Senate campaigns and worked with F. Clifton White and Peter O'Donnell to organize the Draft Goldwater Committee in the 1963–64 presidential campaign. Stephen Shadegg also served not as the national campaign manager for Goldwater in 1964—that post went to Denison Kitchel, also of Phoenix—but as the western regional director of the Goldwater forces. A prolific author, Stephen Shadegg was considered the person closest to Goldwater in their shared conservative philosophy.

The Shadeggs are of partial Swiss descent.