Governor Arthur B. Langlie (Second Term) papers, 1949-1957.
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Langlie, Arthur B. (Arthur Bernard), 1900-1966
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Lawyer, Republican politician, and business executive of Seattle who served one term as mayor of Seattle and three as governor of Washington. Arthur Langlie served as mayor of Seattle from 1938 to 1940, and led the effort to rehabilitate Seattle after the Great Depression. He was the Republican gubernatorial nominee in 1940, and won, thanks largely to a deeply divided Democratic party. During his time as governor, he was involved in the proposed Columbia Valley Administr...
Washington (State). Governor (1949-1957 : Langlie)
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Arthur B. Langlie was defeated for reelection in 1944 by a mere 28,000 votes, but in the 1949 election he reversed the verdict by about the same margin and reassumed the governorship. Many of the problems of Langlie's second term stemmed from the post-World War II adjustment period and national issues which had an important impact on the state. Washington served as a major staging area for the Korean War, civil defense became important in view of the "Cold War" and in the same vein,...
Washington State Ferries
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The Washington State Ferry System is the largest in the U.S., with twenty-nine vessels on ten routes serving twenty terminals in eight counties. It carries more than eleven million vehicles and twenty-six million passengers a year. Responsibility for the Washington State Ferries was originally shared by the Washington Toll Bridge Authority and the Dept. of Highways. The new Dept. of Transportation took over responsibility in 1977. From the description of Records of the Washington Sta...
