1. Arthur Sherwood Flemming was an American government official.
20 Facts About Arthur Flemming
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Arthur Flemming served as the United States Secretary of Health, Education, and Welfare from 1958 until 1961 under President Dwight D Eisenhower's administration.
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Arthur Flemming served as president of the University of Oregon, Ohio Wesleyan University, and Macalester College.
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Arthur Flemming was born in Kingston, New York, to Judge Harry Hardwick Arthur Flemming and the former Harriet.
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Arthur Flemming graduated from Ohio Wesleyan University, class of 1927 and a member of the Epsilon chapter of Alpha Sigma Phi fraternity.
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Arthur Flemming was a member of the Hoover Commission, which studied the organization of federal government in the late 1940s and the early 1950s.
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Arthur Flemming was a co-founder of the Save Our Security coalition, a Social Security advocacy group.
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Arthur Flemming was the recipient of two Presidential Medals of Freedom, one in 1957, from President Dwight D Eisenhower and the second one in 1994, from President Bill Clinton.
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From 1958 until 1961, Flemming served as US Secretary of Health, Education and Welfare, following the resignation of Marion B Folsom.
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On November 9,1959, Secretary Arthur Flemming announced, seventeen days before the Thanksgiving holiday, that some of the 1959 crop of cranberries contained traces of aminotriazole, a weed killer, which had been shown to cause thyroid cancer in rats in laboratory testing.
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Arthur Flemming retired at the end of President Eisenhower's administration on January 19,1961.
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Barely out of his degree at AU, Arthur Flemming was petitioning Roosevelt for New Deal funds to start a program at American University.
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The program was the School of Public Affairs, and Arthur Flemming was its first director.
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Arthur Flemming was the university's first president to be an alumnus and a layman.
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From 1961 to 1968, Arthur Flemming served as president of the University of Oregon.
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Arthur Flemming was responsible for the addition of the School of Community Services and Public Affairs, the Pine Mountain Observatory and the building of various laboratories on campus.
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Arthur Flemming defended the right of the Communist Party, under the leadership of Gus Hall, to speak on campus and he convinced Tom Autzen to contribute money toward to the building of Autzen Stadium.
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From 1968 to 1971, Arthur Flemming served as president of Macalester College in St Paul, Minnesota.
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Arthur Flemming died of renal failure at a retirement home in Alexandria, Virginia, on September 7,1996, at the age of 91.
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Arthur Flemming was buried at the Montrepose Cemetery in his hometown of Kingston, New York.