Lewis Arthur Larson (July 4, 1910 — March 27, 1993) was an American lawyer, law professor, United States Under Secretary of Labor from 1954 to 1956, director of the United States Information Agency from 1956 to 1957, and Executive Assistant to the President for Speeches from 1957 to 1958. 1910 (MCMX) was a common year starting on Saturday (see link for calendar) of the Gregorian calendar or a common year starting on Sunday of the 13-day slower Julian calendar. ... 1993 (MCMXCIII) was a common year starting on Friday of the Gregorian calendar and marked the Beginning of the International Decade to Combat Racism and Racial Discrimination (1993-2003). ... English barrister 16th century painting of a civil law notary, by Flemish painter Quentin Massys. ... 1954 (MCMLIV) was a common year starting on Friday of the Gregorian calendar. ... 1956 (MCMLVI) was a leap year starting on Sunday of the Gregorian calendar. ... The United States Information Agency (USIA), which existed from 1953 to 1999, was a United States agency devoted to what it called public diplomacy. ... 1956 (MCMLVI) was a leap year starting on Sunday of the Gregorian calendar. ... 1957 (MCMLVII) was a common year starting on Tuesday of the Gregorian calendar. ... 1957 (MCMLVII) was a common year starting on Tuesday of the Gregorian calendar. ... 1958 (MCMLVIII) was a common year starting on Wednesday of the Gregorian calendar. ...

Lewis Arthur Larson (his first name was never used) was born in Sioux Falls, South Dakota. He was the third of five children of Lewis Larson and Anna Huseboe Larson, both of whom were second-generation Americans of Norwegian descent. Larson's father was a family court judge in Sioux Falls. Arthur Larson attended the public schools there and the local Lutheran college, Augustana, and then studied law at Pembroke College, Oxford (1932-1935) as a Rhodes Scholar. He was married to Florence Newcomb on July 31, 1935. Sioux Falls (pronounced sue falls) is the largest city in the state of South Dakota. ... College name Pembroke College Collegium Pembrochianum Named after The Earl of Pembroke Established 1624 Sister College Queens College Master Giles Henderson JCR President Dawn Rennie Undergraduates 408 MCR President Ross Nicolson Graduates 119 College Homepage Boat Club Pembroke College is one of the constituent colleges of the University of Oxford... Rhodes House in Oxford Rhodes Scholarships are the worlds oldest and most prestigious international fellowships. ...

He then worked as a lawyer for four years (1935-1939) with the firm of Quarles, Spence and Quarles in Milwaukee, Wisconsin. When depression-era conditions led to his layoff in the summer of 1939, Larson found a job as assistant professor of law at the University of Tennessee Law School in Knoxville, Tennessee. While there, he and Florence Newcomb Larson had two children. Nickname: Cream City, Mil Town, Brew City, The City of Festivals Location of Milwaukee in Milwaukee County, Wisconsin Coordinates: County Milwaukee Mayor Tom Barrett Area    - City 251. ... The University of Tennessee (UT), sometimes called the University of Tennessee, Knoxville (UT Knoxville or UTK), is the flagship institution of the statewide land-grant University of Tennessee public university system. ... Nickname: The Marble City, K-Town, Big Orange Country, Knox Vegas Location Location within the U.S. State of Tennessee Coordinates , Government Cities in Tennessee Tennessee Mayor Bill Haslam (R) Geographical characteristics Area     City 254. ...

In 1941, during World War II, Larson moved on to Washington, D.C., when he mostly worked as a lumber industry regulator at the Office of Price Administration (OPA). In 1945 he became an assistant professor of law at Cornell Law School. Over the next seven years he produced a legal treatise on the Law of Workmen's Compensation (Mathew Bender: 1952), which led to his being named dean of the University of Pittsburgh Law School in 1953. Combatants Major Allied powers: United Kingdom Soviet Union United States Republic of China and others Major Axis powers: Nazi Germany Italy Japan and others Commanders Winston Churchill Joseph Stalin Franklin Roosevelt Harry Truman Chiang Kai-Shek Adolf Hitler Benito Mussolini Hideki Tojo Casualties Military dead: 17,000,000 Civilian dead... Nickname: DC, The District Motto: Justitia Omnibus (Justice for All) Location of Washington, D.C., in relation to the states Maryland and Virginia. ... Bold textThe Office of Price Administration (OPA) was established within the Office for Emergency Management by the United States Government by Executive Order 8875 on August 28, 1941. ... Cornell Law School, located in Ithaca, New York, is a graduate school of Cornell University. ... Workers compensation programs and laws exist to protect employees who are injured while on the job. ... The University of Pittsburgh is a state-related, doctoral/research university in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. ...

Larson's growing fame as a moderately conservative expert on the law of the welfare state and his strong public speaking abilities led to appointment as Under Secretary of Labor (in March 1954) in the Dwight Eisenhower administration. There he emerged as the most articulate spokesman for Eisenhower-era Republicanism. Larson's most popular book, A Republican Looks at His Party (Harper and Row: 1956) was personally endorsed by Eisenhower, who hired Larson to write speeches for him. Eisenhower named Larson the director of the United States Information Agency (USIA) in December 1956 and as his top speechwriter in October 1957. The Welfare State of the United Kingdom was prefigured in the William Beveridge Report in 1942, which identified five Giant Evils in society: squalor, ignorance, want, idleness and disease. ... Dwight David Ike Eisenhower (October 14, 1890–March 28, 1969), American soldier and politician, was the 34th President of the United States (1953–1961) and supreme commander of the Allied forces in Europe during World War II, with the rank of General of the Army. ... A speechwriter is a person who composes speeches that will be read by another person. ...

After leaving the Eisenhower administration in the fall of 1958, Larson became a law professor at Duke University in Durham, North Carolina, where he specialized in international law, arms control and disarmament efforts. He died there on March 27, 1993. Duke University is a private coeducational research university located in Durham, North Carolina, US. The school, which officially became Duke University in 1924, traces its institutional roots to 1838. ... Durham skyline Nickname: City of Medicine Official website: http://www. ... International law (also called public international law to distinguish from private international law, i. ... Arms control is a broad term alluding to a range of political concepts and aims. ... Disarmament means the act of reducing or depriving arms i. ...

Larson's rise to fame from relative obscurity and then gradual return to it reflected the changing fortunes of moderate conservatives within the Republican Party and the nation during his lifetime.

Larson is critiqued as a prototypical big government Republican in Barry Goldwater's landmark small government Republican manifesto, The Conscience of a Conservative. Larson's life and work are treated at length in a biography by David Stebenne, Modern Republican: Arthur Larson and the Eisenhower Years (Indiana University Press, 2006). Barry Goldwater (January 1, 1909 – May 29, 1998) was a five-term United States Senator from Arizona (1953–1965, 1969–87) and the Republican Partys nominee for President in the 1964 election. ... The Conscience of a Conservative (Library of Congress Catalogue Card #60-12269) is a book written by Arizona Senator and 1964 Republican presidential candidate Barry Goldwater in 1960. ...

External links

• Web page for the book Modern Republican: Arthur Larson and the Eisenhower Years (Indiana University Press, 2006)
• Larson's Worker's Compensation Pages
• 1983 Audio recording of a presentation by Arthur Larson on the Eisenhower Presidency
• Time Magazine, 1956: "The Authentic American Center" - about Arthur Larson and Eisenhower
• Time Magazine, 1958: Arthur's resignation from the Eisenhower Administration, and founding of the Rule of Law Center at Duke University