James Kelley
James Kelley, a longtime Tucson Republican activist, died unexpectedly this week. He was 59.
Kelley, a one-time candidate for Pima County supervisor, was a U.S. Navy veteran who became omnipresent at political events in Tucson and around Arizona.
Born in Tucson in 1961, his mother Marilyn Cresci said, Kelley spent a lot of time in his early years at “the corner” — the Adkins Steel property owned by his grandfather, at the…
