Category:William Vincent Besser

**William Vincent Besser**
	Polish-American portrait painter
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Date of birth	1873; Silesia
Date of death	1915; Pinal County
Country of citizenship	United States of America;
Occupation	painter;
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English: William Vincent Besser (1873-1915), American portrait painter born in Silesia; immigrated to the United States as a child, possibly in 1891; lived and painted in Washington, D.C., Texas, and Kentucky before moving to Arizona for health reasons; befriended Governor George W. P. Hunt who in 1913 commissioned Besser to paint the portraits of the 16 Arizona Territorial Governors, the first 2 Speakers of the Arizona House of Representatives, and the first President of the Arizona Senate; died at the hospital in Florence, Arizona on April 15, 1915.

Reference: Territorial Governor Portraits by William Besser, Arizona Memory Project