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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 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.
BibliographyAmerican National Biography;
Dictionary of American Biography; Watkins, Arthur.
Enough Rope: The Inside Story of the Censure of Senator Joe McCarthy by
his Colleagues. Englewood Cliffs, N.J.: Prentice-Hall, 1969.
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