Tempe Constable
Tempe Constable Cresencio "Chris" Sigala
Sr., born 1874 in Sonora. He also was a Tempe school truant
officer. He played football for the Normal School (now ASU),
was a typesetter for the Tempe Daily News, a grocery owner,
one of the founders of Liga Protectora Latina, and a National
Guard officer. He was active in Maricopa County politics
and friend of Judge Fred Struckmeyer Jr. who later became
an Arizona Supreme Court Chief Justice. Sigala's father
worked for Carl T. Hayden who served Arizona for more than
50 years in Congress as a Democratic U.S. senator and representative.
Source: Tempe Historical Museum