Samuel W. Arnold

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Samuel Washington Arnold (born September 21, 1879 in Downing , Schuyler County , Missouri , †  December 18, 1961 in Kirksville , Missouri) was an American politician . Between 1943 and 1949 he represented the state of Missouri in the US House of Representatives .

Career

Samuel Arnold attended the public schools in Coffey and then until 1902 the Kirksville State Teachers College . For several years he worked as a teacher and school councilor. In 1903 he gave up teaching. The following year he served with the St. Louis Tax Department. Between 1905 and 1908 he worked as a timber merchant in Atlanta, Missouri. Then he moved to Kirksville, where he founded the Arnold Lumber Co. , also in the wood business.

Politically, Arnold was a member of the Republican Party . In the 1942 congressional election he was elected to the US House of Representatives in Washington, DC in the first constituency of Missouri , where he succeeded Milton A. Romjue on January 3, 1943 . After two re-elections, he was able to complete three legislative terms in Congress by January 3, 1949 . These were determined by the events of the Second World War and its consequences.

In 1948, 1950 and 1952 Arnold applied unsuccessfully to remain in or return to Congress. Then he retired. He died in Kirksville on December 18, 1961. Since 1904 he was married to Myra Gertrude Mills.

Web links

  • Samuel W. Arnold in the Biographical Directory of the United States Congress (English)