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  Arnold, Samuel W. "Wat"
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NameSamuel W. "Wat" Arnold
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Kirksville, Missouri , United States
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Born September 21, 1879
DiedDecember 18, 1961 (82 years)
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Dec 13, 2014 04:26pm
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InfoARNOLD, 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.

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  11/04/1952 MO District 9 Lost 45.25% (-9.49%)
  08/05/1952 MO District 9 - R Primary Won 34.38% (+10.53%)
  11/07/1950 MO District 1 Lost 45.63% (-8.75%)
  08/01/1950 MO District 1 - R Primary Won 76.03% (+52.06%)
  11/02/1948 MO District 1 Lost 42.38% (-15.24%)
  11/05/1946 MO District 1 Won 50.32% (+0.64%)
  08/06/1946 MO District 1 - R Primary Won 52.05% (+10.59%)
  11/07/1944 MO District 1 Won 50.80% (+1.60%)
  11/03/1942 MO District 1 Won 55.54% (+11.08%)
  08/04/1942 MO District 1 - R Primary Won 49.14% (+6.91%)
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