Extracts from Wikipedia entry for Arthur Larson
Accessed Dec 15 2025
"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 for speeches for U.S. President Dwight D. Eisenhower from 1957 to 1958.
Arthur Larson (he avoided using his first name) 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. 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 married Florence Newcomb on July 31, 1935.
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In 1941, during World War II, Larson moved to Washington, DC, when he mostly worked as a lumber industry regulator at the Office of Price Administration. In 1945, he became an assistant professor of law at Cornell Law School in Ithaca, New York. Over the next seven years, he produced the legal treatise Larson's Workers' Compensation Law (Matthew Bender: 1952).
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In 1953, Larson was appointed dean of the University of Pittsburgh School of Law in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania.
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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.
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He died in Durham on March 27, 1993."