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American politician

Arthur Armstrong Denny (June 20, 1822 – January 9, 1899) was an American politician and businessman. He helped establish Seattle, Washington, founded Denny Party, and was later the city's wealthiest citizen He was a 9 term member of the territorial legislature. The city's Denny Way, however, is named not after Arthur Denny, but after his younger brother David Denny.

Denny was born near Salem, Washington County, Indiana; by the time he was attending school his family had settled in Knox County, Illinois. Denny did not have an easy childhood. He cared for his invalid mother while attending half days in a log schoolhouse. He learned carpentry, taught school, studied surveying,

On February 15, 1852, Denny and others filed their claims. On November 25, 1852, Denny was a delegate at the Monticello Convention that produced a petition to US Congress to split the Oregon Territory, creating the Washington Territory, which would later become the state of Washington. In 1854 when he began a general merchandise partnership with Dexter Horton and David Phillips. He was president of the Seattle and Walla Walla Railroad Company and an investor in the Great Western Iron and Steel Company. Later in life, he was active in the Society of Washington Pioneers and wrote a memoir, Pioneer Days in Puget Sound. On the current U. W. campus, Denny Hall, the former administration building (built 1895) is named in his honor. In 1962, he was inducted into the Hall of Great Westerners of the National Cowboy & Western Heritage Museum.

Denny was an ascetic, a devout Christian (conservative in his religion to the point of opposing a divorce law), and a lifelong teetotaler. The resolution was voted down. It was later shown in a review done by a professional engineering firm on behalf of the city that it was in fact Denny that was wrong about the direction the streets should run and had actually violated the law in his plat of the city.