Arthur B. Langlie

Arthur Bernard Langlie (July 25, 1900 – July 24, 1966) served as the mayor of Seattle, Washington and was the 12th and 14th Governor of the U.S. state of Washington from 1941 to 1945 and from 1949 to 1957. He practiced law in Seattle for 10 years before entering politics in 1935. He was on the short list of candidates Dwight Eisenhower considered as his running mate in 1952 before he settled on Richard Nixon. Langlie left politics in 1956, and became the president of the McCall Corporation.

Arthur B. Langlie in The Hot War
After the Soviet Union's atomic attack on Seattle and the near-miss on Spokane on March 2, 1951, Governor Arthur B. Langlie called out the National Guard, following the lead of Governors Fred Payne of Maine and Earl Warren of California.