Walter Macarthur | |
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United States Shipping Commissioner | |
In office 1913–1932 | |
Appointed by | William C. Redfield |
Personal details | |
Born | (1862-03-09)March 9, 1862 Glasgow, Scotland |
Died | December 8, 1944(1944-12-08) (aged 82) San Francisco, California, U.S. |
Resting place | Cypress Lawn Memorial Park |
Political party | Democratic Union Labor |
Spouse |
Annabelle Lyle Hunter
(m. 1928) |
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Military service | |
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Branch/service | British Merchant Navy U.S. Merchant Marine |
Walter Macarthur (March 9, 1862 – December 8, 1944) was a Scottish-American labor leader and writer who served nearly twenty years as a United States Shipping Commissioner. He was one of the founders of the Sailors' Union of the Pacific, and was the longtime editor of its official organ, the Coast Seamen's Journal. He was involved with the San Francisco Union Labor Party before disavowing it over its corruption, and was a co-founder of the Asiatic Exclusion League. In 1910 he ran for Congress against Julius Kahn.
Works
References
- "Ex U.S. Port Executive Dies". The San Francisco Examiner. San Francisco. 9 December 1944. Retrieved 8 April 2024.
- "Two fine books of sea and its life by a Californian". The Sacramento Bee. Sacramento. 19 September 1925. Retrieved 8 April 2024.
- Bean, Walton (1967). Boss Ruef's San Francisco. Berkeley and Los Angeles: University of California Press. p. 264.
- Buell, Raymond Leslie. 1992. "The Development of the Anti-Japanese Agitation in the United States." Political Science Quarterly 37(4):605-38. doi:10.2307/2142459. JSTOR 2142459.
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