Arthur J. Sills (October 19, 1917 – December 26, 1982) was the Attorney General of New Jersey from 1962 to 1970.
Sills was born in Brooklyn, New York in 1917, and his family moved to Perth Amboy, New Jersey in 1921. He contracted polio when he was four years old and later traveled to Warm Springs, Georgia for treatment. There he befriended Franklin D. Roosevelt, who was receiving treatment for his paralytic illness.
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