Senate Resolution No. 7–Senators Raggio, Amodei, Care, Carlton, Coffin,
Jacobsen, James, Mathews, McGinness, Neal, O’Connell, O’Donnell,
Porter, Rawson, Rhoads, Schneider, Shaffer, Titus, Townsend,
Washington and Wiener
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SENATE RESOLUTION—Inducting T. Tracy Fairchild into the Senate Hall of Fame.
Whereas, The Senate of the Legislature of the State of Nevada has
established a Senate Hall of Fame whose members are selected by
leadership from former state Senators who have served with distinction
with exemplary contributions to the State of Nevada; and
Whereas, Tracy Fairchild, a leader in the Republican Party in Elko
County and this state, served in the Nevada Legislature with distinction and
fairness for 18 years as an Assemblyman from 1914 through 1918 and 1920
through 1922, as a Senator from 1922 through 1934, and as President Pro-
Tempore of the Senate in 1929; and
Whereas, Former Senator Fairchild was Chairman of the Senate
Standing Committee on Ways and Means for every legislative session he
served as a Senator and was instrumental in establishing tax levies,
providing appropriations for the operation of government, adopting
biennial state budgets and setting the salaries of state officers and
employees; now, therefore, be it
Resolved by the Senate of the State of Nevada, That T. Tracy
Fairchild, a powerful and influential leader who set many of the fiscal
policies for the State of Nevada, is hereby inducted into the Senate Hall of
Fame of the Legislature of the State of Nevada.