{{Short description|12th and 14th governor of Washington}} {{Use mdy dates|date=December 2024}} {{Infobox officeholder |name = Arthur Langlie |image = Governor Langlie.jpg |caption = Langlie {{circa}} 1941–1945 |order = 12th and 14th Governor of Washington |lieutenant = Victor Aloysius Meyers<br>Emmett T. Anderson |term_start = January 12, 1949 |term_end = January 16, 1957 |predecessor = Monrad Wallgren |successor = Albert Rosellini |lieutenant1 = Victor Aloysius Meyers |term_start1 = January 15, 1941 |term_end1 = January 10, 1945 |predecessor1 = Clarence D. Martin |successor1 = Monrad Wallgren |office2 = Chair of the National Governors Association |term_start2 = August 9, 1955 |term_end2 = June 24, 1956 |predecessor2 = Robert F. Kennon |successor2 = Thomas B. Stanley |office3 = 41st Mayor of Seattle |term_start3 = April 27, 1938 |term_end3 = January 11, 1941 |predecessor3 = James Scavotto |successor3 = John E. Carroll |office4 = Member of the Seattle City Council |term_start4 = March 1935 |term_end4 = March 1938 |birth_name = Arthur Bernard Langlie |birth_date = July 25, 1900 |birth_place = Lanesboro, Minnesota, U.S. |death_date = {{death date and age|1966|7|24|1900|7|25}} |death_place = Seattle, Washington, U.S. |party = Republican |education = University of Washington (LLB) }}
'''Arthur Bernard Langlie''' (July 25, 1900 – July 24, 1966) was an American politician who served as the mayor of Seattle and was the 12th and 14th governor of the state of Washington from 1941 to 1945 and from 1949 to 1957. He is the only mayor of Seattle to be elected governor of Washington, the longest serving Governor of Washington (4,384 days), and the only governor in the state's history to serve non-consecutive terms.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.nga.org/cms/home/governors/past-governors-bios/page_washington/col2-content/main-content-list/title_langlie_arthur.html |title=Washington Governor Arthur B. Langlie |publisher=National Governors Association |access-date=September 1, 2015}}</ref>
==Early life and education== left|thumb|Langlie {{circa}} 1925 Langlie was born in Lanesboro, Minnesota. His father, Bjarne Langlie, had emigrated from Norway. His mother, Carrie Dahl, was of Norwegian and Swedish ancestry.<ref>{{Cite web |last=Forssblad |first=Marianne |date=August 15, 2001 |title=Norwegians in Seattle and King County |url=https://www.historylink.org/file/3476 |access-date=January 7, 2026 |website=History Link}}</ref> He moved with his family to Washington's Kitsap Peninsula at the age of nine. Langlie was graduated from Union High School, in Bremerton, Washington. Langlie earned a Bachelor of Laws from the University of Washington in 1925, where he was a member of Phi Kappa Sigma fraternity.
==Career== After graduating from the University of Washington, Langlie became a senior partner in the law firm of Langlie, Todd, and Nickell.<ref>{{cite web|title=Arthur B. Langlie|url=http://www.nndb.com/people/660/000206042/|access-date=September 1, 2015|publisher=NNBD.com}}</ref>
He practiced law in Seattle for nearly 10 years before winning a Seattle City Council seat in 1935 as a candidate of the New Order of Cincinnatus.<ref name="HL">{{cite web |last1=Oldham |first1=Kit |title=Voters elect Arthur B. Langlie mayor of the City of Seattle on March 8, 1938. |url=https://www.historylink.org/File/2818 |publisher=History Link |access-date=September 22, 2024 |date=February 12, 2014}}</ref> He served as mayor of Seattle from 1938 to 1941.<ref>{{citation |last=Berner |first=Richard C. |year=1992 |title=Seattle 1921-1940: From Boom to Bust |series =Seattle in the 20th Century |publication-place =Seattle |publisher=Charles Press |isbn=0-9629889-1-X |pages=354–355 }}</ref> He became the Republican candidate for governor in 1940 and won a narrow victory. 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 Daniel Jackson Evans took office in 1965 at 39. Langlie was defeated for re-election in 1944 by Democrat Monrad C. Wallgren but won the office back by defeating Wallgren in 1948. Langlie is the only Washington governor to regain that office after losing it.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://digitalwa.statelib.wa.gov:2012/cdm4/item_viewer.php?CISOROOT=/governors&CISOPTR=22&CISOBOX=1&REC=1 |title=Arthur Bernard Langlie |publisher=Washington Rural Heritage |access-date=September 1, 2015 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160304130434/http://digitalwa.statelib.wa.gov:2012/cdm4/item_viewer.php?CISOROOT=%2Fgovernors&CISOPTR=22&CISOBOX=1&REC=1 |archive-date=March 4, 2016 |url-status=dead }}</ref>
In 1952, he was one of five people on the shortlist for the Republican vice presidential nomination. Dwight Eisenhower instead chose Richard Nixon.<ref>''Richard Nixon: The Rise of an American Politician'' (Roger Morris. Pg. 726)</ref> He was an unsuccessful candidate for the United States Senate in 1956. Langlie's legacy as governor included the establishment of the Washington State Ferries system, the completion of road and bridge projects, and some of the first environmental measures adopted in the state of Washington.<ref>[http://www.historylink.org/index.cfm?displaypage=output.cfm&file_id=5634 ''Governor Arthur B. Langlie'' (HistoryLink.org)]</ref>
Langlie left politics after failing in his 1956 campaign to defeat Democratic U.S. 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.<ref>''Women's Periodicals in the United States - Consumer Magazines'', (by Kathleen L. Endres and Theresa L. Luech, Greenwood Publishing Group, 1995)</ref>
==References== {{reflist}}
==Other sources== *George W. Scott ''Arthur B. Langlie; Republican Governor in a Democratic Age'' (Ph.D. dissertation, University of Washington. 1971)
==External links== *{{Find a Grave|6410}} *[https://archiveswest.orbiscascade.org/ark:80444/xv16767 Frederick G. Hamley Papers], 1934–1956. 6.83 cubic feet. At the [https://lib.washington.edu/specialcollections/laws Labor Archives of Washington, University of Washington Special Collections].
{{s-start}} {{s-off}} {{s-bef|before=John F. Dore}} {{s-ttl|title=Mayor of Seattle|years=1938–1941}} {{s-aft|after=John E. Carroll}} |- {{s-bef|before=Clarence D. Martin}} {{s-ttl|title=Governor of Washington|years=1941–1945}} {{s-aft|after=Monrad Wallgren}} |- {{s-bef|before=Monrad Wallgren}} {{s-ttl|title=Governor of Washington|years=1949–1957}} {{s-aft|after=Albert Rosellini}} |- {{s-bef|before=Robert F. Kennon}} {{s-ttl|title=Chair of the National Governors Association|years=1955–1956}} {{s-aft|after=Thomas B. Stanley}} |- {{s-ppo}} {{s-bef|before=Roland H. Hartley}} {{s-ttl|title=Republican nominee for Governor of Washington|years=1940, 1944, 1948, 1952}} {{s-aft|after=Emmett T. Anderson}} |- {{s-bef|before=Douglas MacArthur}} {{s-ttl|title=Keynote Speaker of the Republican National Convention|years=1956}} {{s-aft|after=Walter Judd}} |- {{s-bef|before=Walter Williams}} {{s-ttl|title=Republican nominee for U.S. Senator from Washington<br>(Class 3)|years=1956}} {{s-aft|after=Richard Christensen}} {{s-end}}
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