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J. Arthur Lazell (1912 or 1913 - February 17, 1991) was a Presbyterian minister and Food and Drug Administration official.
Born in New York City, Lazell graduated from Maryville College in Tennessee and received a master's degree in theology from the Princeton Theological Seminary in Princeton, N.J. He was ordained a Presbyterian minister in 1937. He served churches in New York and Pennsylvania until World War II, when he worked for the Office of War Information in New York. After the war, he worked for a radio station in Philadelphia. In 1956, he went to New York to work in a Presbyterian program for refugees from the Hungarian uprising of that year.
In 1960, Mr. Lazell joined the presidential campaign of John F. Kennedy. After Kennedy's election, he went to Miami as an official of the Department of Health, Education and Welfare to help run a program for Cuban refugees. In 1964, he transferred to Washington and became assistant director of the Bureau of Radiological Health in HEW and remained with the bureau when it was transferred to the FDA. He retired in 1983.
He was an official of refugee programs in New York and Miami, and a past president of the Rock Creek Hills Citizens Association in Kensington. He was active in the National Capital Presbytery, Presbyterian Church (USA), and he attended Warner Memorial Presbyterian Church. He was a guest preacher there and at other churches in the Washington area.
Lazell resided in Kensington, Washington and died there in 1991, aged of 79.

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