| LC control no. | nr 92044609 |
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| Descriptive conventions | rda |
| Personal name heading | Watkins, Arthur V. (Arthur Vivian), 1886-1973 |
| Variant(s) | Watkins, Arthur Vivian, 1886- Watkins, Arthur Vivian, 1886-1973 |
| Birth date | 18861218 |
| Death date | 19730901 |
| Place of birth | Midway (Utah) |
| Place of death | Orem (Utah) |
| Affiliation | United States. Congress. Senate United States. Indian Claims Commission |
| Profession or occupation | Authors Lawyers Legislators--United States |
| Found in | Utah State memorial stone, 1951: p. 13 (Arthur V. Watkins, United State senator, state of Utah) LC in RLIN, 11-5-92 (hdg.: Watkins, Arthur Vivian, 1886-) Who was who in Amer. (Watkins, Arthur V.,b. 1886, d. 1973) Biographical Directory of the United States Congress, via WWW, March 5, 2014 (Watkins, Arthur Vivian (1886-1973); a Senator from Utah; born in Midway, Wasatch County, Utah, December 18, 1886; attended the public schools, Brigham Young University, Provo, Utah, 1903-1906, and New York University, New York City, 1909-1910; graduated from Columbia University Law School, New York City, 1912; admitted to the bar the same year and commenced practice in Vernal, Utah; engaged in newspaper work in 1914; assistant county attorney of Salt Lake County, 1914-1915; engaged in agricultural pursuits, 1919-1925; district judge of the fourth judicial district of Utah, 1928-1933; unsuccessful candidate for the Republican nomination to the Seventy-fifth Congress in 1936; elected as a Republican to the United States Senate in 1946; reelected in 1952 and served from January 3, 1947, to January 3, 1959; was an unsuccessful candidate for reelection in 1958; chairman, Select Committee on the Censure of Joseph McCarthy (Eighty-third Congress), co-chairman, Joint Committee on Navaho-Hopi Indian Administration (Eighty-third Congress), Joint Committee on Immigration and Naturalization Policy (Eighty-third Congress); member of the Indian Claims Commission, Washington, D.C., from August 1959 until retirement in September 1967; author; was a resident of Salt Lake City until he moved to Orem, Utah, in 1973 where he died September 1, 1973; interment in Eastlawn Memorial Hills) |
| Associated language | eng |
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