Arthur B. Langlie Fund |
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Arthur B. Langlie, ’25, practiced law in
Seattle for ten years before becoming active in politics. He was a member of
the Seattle City Council (1935-36), then mayor of Seattle (1938-41). He
served three terms as governor of the State of Washington (1941-45,
1949-57). He was the only Seattle mayor to become governor and the first
governor to serve three terms.
A Republican, he was active in Dwight Eisenhower’s successful campaign for President in 1952. In 1956, Governor Langlie unsuccessfully ran for the Senate against incumbent Senator Warren Magnuson (UW Law ‘29). (Ironically, Langlie had appointed Magnuson to a vacant seat twelve years earlier.) After politics, Langlie had a career as a publisher in New York. He was president of the company that published McCall’s, Redbook, and Saturday Review until 1962, when he stepped down and became Chairman of the Board (1962-64). He returned to Seattle, where he died in 1966. For more information, see the biography on Historylink. His family (including his son, Arthur S. Langlie, ’58) established a book fund for the Library in his memory.
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