Background
Langlie was born in Lanesboro, Minnesota. His father, Bjarne Langlie, had emigrated from Norway. His mother, Carrie Dahl, was of Norwegian and Dutch ancestry.
politician governor of Washington
Langlie was born in Lanesboro, Minnesota. His father, Bjarne Langlie, had emigrated from Norway. His mother, Carrie Dahl, was of Norwegian and Dutch ancestry.
Langlie attended Coontz Junior High and graduated from Union High both in Bremerton, Washington. Langlie graduated from the University of Washington, where he was a member of Phi Kappa Sigma Fraternity (law degree 1925).
He moved with his family to Washington"s Kitsap Peninsula at the age of nine. He practiced law in Seattle for nearly 10 years before winning a Seattle City Council seat in 1935 as a candidate of the conservative and moralistic reform group the New Order of Cincinnatus. He served as mayor of Seattle during the period 1938-1941.
He is to date the only mayor of Seattle to be elected Governor of Washington.
At 40, Langlie was the youngest governor in the history of the state until Dan Evans was elected. Arthur B. Langlie was the only Washington governor to regain that office after losing lieutenant
In 1952 he was one of five people on the short list for the Republican vice presidential nomination. He was an unsuccessful candidate for the United States. Senate in 1956.
Langlie"s legacy as Governor included the Washington State Ferries system inaugurated under his administration, additional road and bridge projects, and some of the first environmental measures adopted in the state of Washington.
Langlie left politics after failing in his 1956 campaign to defeat Democratic United States. Senator Warren G. Magnuson. Los Angeles financier Norton Simon asked Langlie to take charge of the McCall publishing house that Simon had just acquired. In 1958 Langlie was named as the new president of the McCall Corporation Frederick G. Hamley Papers.
1933-1963.
6.83 cubic feet. Contains correspondence between Hamley and Langlie when Hamley served as Langlie’s political and legal advisor. At the Labor of Washington, University of Washington Special Collections.
