Walter Macarthur

Walter Macarthur
Macarthur c. 1917
United States Shipping Commissioner
In office
1913–1932
Appointed byWilliam C. Redfield
Personal details
Born(1862-03-09)March 9, 1862
Glasgow, Scotland
DiedDecember 8, 1944(1944-12-08) (aged 82)
San Francisco, California, U.S.
Resting placeCypress Lawn Memorial Park
Political partyDemocratic
Union Labor
Spouse
Annabelle Lyle Hunter
(m. 1928)
Occupation
  • Labor leader
  • writer
  • shipping commissioner
Known for
Military service
AllegianceUnited Kingdom United Kingdom
United States United States
Branch/serviceBritish 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.[1] 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.[2] He was involved with the San Francisco Union Labor Party before disavowing it over its corruption,[3] and was a co-founder of the Asiatic Exclusion League.[4] In 1910 he ran for Congress against Julius Kahn.

  1. ^ "Ex U.S. Port Executive Dies". The San Francisco Examiner. San Francisco. 9 December 1944. Retrieved 8 April 2024.
  2. ^ "Two fine books of sea and its life by a Californian". The Sacramento Bee. Sacramento. 19 September 1925. Retrieved 8 April 2024.
  3. ^ Bean, Walton (1967). Boss Ruef's San Francisco. Berkeley and Los Angeles: University of California Press. p. 264.
  4. ^ Buell, Raymond Leslie. [1922] 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.