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History and Government—Congressional Biographies—MissouriSamuel Washington (Wat) ARNOLD
(1879-1961)
ARNOLD, Samuel Washington
(Wat), a Representative from Missouri; born on a farm near
Downing, Schuyler County, Mo., September 21, 1879; attended the
Coffey, Mo., rural schools and was graduated from Kirksville (Mo.)
State Teachers College in 1902; taught school in the Coffey, Mo.,
school district in 1896; superintendent of the public schools in
Middletown, Mo., in 1901 and 1902 and in Atlanta, Mo., in 1903;
employed in the St. Louis, Mo., internal revenue office in 1904;
engaged in the retail lumber business at Atlanta, Mo., 1905-1908;
moved to Kirksville, Mo., in 1908 and organized the Arnold Lumber
Co.; elected as a Republican to the Seventy-eighth, Seventy-ninth,
and Eightieth Congresses (January 3, 1943-January 3, 1949);
unsuccessful candidate for reelection in 1948 to the Eighty-first
Congress, for election in 1950 to the Eighty-second Congress, and
in 1952 to the Eighty-third Congress; retired from political and
business activities in 1952; died in Kirksville, Mo., December 18,
1961; interment in Maple Hills Cemetery.
Source: Biographical Directory of the United States Congress, 1771-Present
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