Arthur Vivian Watkins
1886
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1973
photo credits: Wikimedia Commons
country of citizenship: United States of America
languages spoken, written or signed: English
educated at: Brigham Young University, Columbia Law School, New York University, primary school
occupation: politician, lawyer, judge, journalist, farmer, author
position held: county attorney, United States federal judge, member, United States senator
Arthur Vivian Watkins (December 18, 1886 – September 1, 1973) was a Republican U.S. Senator from Utah, serving two terms from 1947 to 1959. He was influential as a proponent of terminating federal recognition of American Indian tribes, in the belief that they should be assimilated and all treaty rights abrogated. In 1954 he chaired the Watkins Committee, which led to the censure of Senator Joseph McCarthy, who had made extensive allegations of communist infiltration of government and art groups. Watkins voted in favor of the Civil Rights Act of 1957. Source: Wikipedia (en)
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