Arthur Warren Overmyer (May 31, 1879 – March 8, 1952) was a

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from

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, and a judge on the Ohio Court of Appeals.

Biography

Born near Lindsey, Ohio, Overmyer attended the public schools and also Lima Lutheran College. He taught school, and later graduated from the Ohio Northern University school of law at

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in 1902. He was

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in 1902 and commenced practice in

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. He served as clerk of the Fremont Board of Health 1907-1910, and as

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1910-1914. Overmyer was elected as a

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to the Sixty-fourth and Sixty-fifth Congresses (March 4, 1915 – March 3, 1919). He was an unsuccessful candidate for reelection in 1918 to the Sixty-sixth Congress. He was appointed judge of the

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by Gov. A.V. Donahey April 10, 1926, and elected to that position in November of the same year. He was reelected in 1930 and served until his resignation on December 1, 1934, having been appointed by Gov.

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to a vacancy in the Ohio Sixth District Court of Appeals. Overmyer was elected in 1936 for a six-year term. In 1942, he was chosen as chief justice of the nine courts of appeals of Ohio. He retired from the courts on February 8, 1943. He resumed the private practice of law in

, until his retirement in 1951. He died in

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, March 8, 1952. He was interred in Four-Mile House Cemetery, near

. Overmyer married Nina Zelden Preston of

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at Ada, Ohio, June 17, 1903. They had a son named Richard Preston Overmyer, born in 1904. He was exalted ruler of the Fremont lodge of the B.P.O.E., a Knights of Pythias, and a

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{{DEFAULTSORT:Overmyer, Arthur Warren 1879 births 1952 deaths People from Sandusky County, Ohio Claude W. Pettit College of Law alumni Judges of the Ohio District Courts of Appeals People from Fremont, Ohio Democratic Party members of the United States House of Representatives from Ohio