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History and Government—Congressional Biographies—ArkansasSamuel West PEEL
(1831-1924)
PEEL, Samuel West, a
Representative from Arkansas; born near Batesville, Independence
County, Ark., September 13, 1831; attended the common schools;
clerk of the circuit court of Carroll County, Ark., 1858-1860;
entered the Confederate service in 1861 as a private; elected major
of the Third Regiment, Arkansas Infantry, and later colonel of the
Fourth Regiment, Arkansas Infantry; studied law; was admitted to
the bar and commenced the practice of his profession in Carrollton,
Ark., in 1865; moved to Bentonville, Benton County, in 1867 and
continued the practice of law; prosecuting attorney of the fourth
judicial circuit of Arkansas 1873-1876; elected as a Democrat to
the Forty-eighth and to the four succeeding Congresses (March 4,
1883-March 3, 1893); chairman, Committee on Indian Affairs
(Fiftieth and Fifty-second Congresses); unsuccessful candidate for
renomination in 1892; resumed the practice of law in Bentonville,
Ark., and before the Court of Claims at Washington, D.C., until
1915; died in Bentonville, Ark., December 18, 1924; interment in
Bentonville Cemetery.
Source: Biographical Directory of the United States Congress, 1771-Present
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