Barry Morris Goldwater http://bioguide.congress.gov/scripts/biodisplay.pl?index=g000267 was born on January 2, 1909 in Phoenix, Arizona and died on May 29, 1998 in Paradise Valley, Arizona. He is best known as five-term United Stateshttps://www.cia.gov/library/publications/the-world-factbook/geos/us.htmlSenator from Arizona in the years 1953 to 1965 and then again in 1969 to 1987. Goldwater is also known for his presidential bid as the Republican Partywww.gop.com nominee in the 1964 election. Although, Goldwater is perhaps best known as "Mr. Conservative" for leading the revival of conservative political values in American politics during the 1960s.

Goldwater graduated from Staunton Military Academy, an elite private high school, prior to attending the University of Arizona. After a short stint there, he was drafted into the United States Army Air Forces on a reserve commission during World War II http://www.archives.gov/research/ww2/photos/. Following the conclusion of World War II, Goldwater joined a group of advocates for the development of a United States Air Force Academywww.usafa.af.mil. He would eventually serve on the Board of Visitors for the USAF Academy.

Goldwater made his foray into politics in 1949 when he was elected to the Phoenix City Council. Three years in 1952, following his election to the City Council, he was elected as a Republican for the US Senate. He then won his re-election bid in 1958, which would prove to be the conclusion of his first stint in Congress, as he ran for president http://query.nytimes.com/gst/fullpage.html?res=9B0CE7D81E38F933A05756C0A96E958260&pagewanted=5 in 1964 as the Republican Party’s nominee.

Goldwater would eventually lose the election to the Democratic candidate, Lyndon Johnson, the senior Senator from Texas. The following Arizona election in term in 1969, Goldwater successfully ran for re-election for his Senate seat. A seat he would hold until 1987, when he retired from the political arena.

Goldwater established his conservative political ideology throughout the 1960s, where he spoke out against then president Franklin Delano Roosevelt’s New Deal legislation. This agenda resulted in the New Deal coalition to defeat the New Deal in Congress. After a 6-year battle, Goldwater decided to run for president to defeat New Deal and Great Society programs, which were seen as liberal ideology. However, Goldwater would lose to Lyndon Johnson in a landslide defeat. His imprint on a national media scale was felt in the younger generations, which would eventually lead to the Reagan Revolution, founded by then California governor Ronald Reagan.

Political analysts have often posited that Goldwater was the invisible hand in the resurgence of conservative politics in America. A resurgence which would eventually result in Reagan being elected the 40th President of the United States in 1981.

Following his presidential loss, Goldwater returned to the Senate in 1969, where he was able to successfully pass the Goldwater-Nichols Act of 1986. This bill was particularly important in American history, as it restructured the higher levels of the Pentagon by enhancing control in which the Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff had in coordinating and managing military action.