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Arthur Vivian WATKINS, Congress, UT (1886-1973)

Senate Years of Service: 1947-1959 Party: Republican WATKINS Arthur Vivian , a Senator from Utah; born in Midway, Wasatch County, Utah, December 18, 1886; attended the public schools, Brigham…

Arthur Harry MOORE, Congress, NJ (1879-1952)

Senate Years of Service: 1935-1938 Party: Democrat MOORE Arthur Harry , a Senator from New Jersey; born in Jersey City, N.J., July 3, 1877; attended the public schools and Cooper Union College…

Arthur Warren OVERMYER, Congress, OH (1879-1952)

OVERMYER Arthur Warren , a Representative from Ohio; born near Lindsey, Sandusky County, Ohio, on May 31, 1879; attended the public schools and also Lima Lutheran College; taught school; was…

Samuel Arthur WEISS, Congress, PA (1902-1977)

WEISS Samuel Arthur , a Representative from Pennsylvania; born in Krotowocz, Poland, April 15, 1902; immigrated to the United States in 1903 with his parents, who settled in Glassport, Pa.;…

Robinson, Arthur Napoleon Raymond

(Encyclopedia) Robinson, Arthur Napoleon Raymond, 1926–2014, Trinidadian political leader, b. Tobago. A barrister before being elected (1961) to parliament, he was a founding member of the People's…

Saint Austell

(Encyclopedia) Saint AustellSaint Austellsŭnt ôˈstəl; [key], town (1991 pop. 36,639), Cornwall, SW England, at the mouth of the Fowey River on St. Austell Bay. China clay (discovered there c.1755) is…

Strickland, Donna Theo

(Encyclopedia) Strickland, Donna Theo, 1959–, Canadian physicist, Ph.D. Univ. of Rochester, New York, 1989. Strickland held research positions at the National Research Council of Canada in Ottawa…

Stegner, Wallace

(Encyclopedia) Stegner, Wallace (Wallace Earle Stegner), 1909–93, American writer, b. Lake Mills, Iowa, grad. Univ. of Utah (1930). He wrote perceptively of the American West in short stories, e.g.,…