James Arthur Ewing (born October 1, 1916) was the

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. He took the office on November 28, 1952 and resigned just over four months later, on March 4, 1953. He was appointed by

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Biography

He was born in

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and later lived in

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. Prior to his appointment, Ewing was an

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with an

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steel company. In July 1956, his wife, former model Bernice Ewing, sued him for divorce on grounds of extreme cruelty. A year later, a judge increased the payments but it was stated Ewing's whereabouts were unknown; he had last been heard from in Fiji in January of that year, when payments abruptly stopped. At the time of his father's death in 1961, Ewing was residing in

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References

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