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

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Biography

Born near

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, 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

Fremont, Ohio Fremont is a city in and the county seat of Sandusky County, Ohio, United States, located along the banks of the Sandusky River. It is about 35 miles from Toledo and 25 miles from Sandusky. It is part of the Toledo metropolitan area. The popula ...

. 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 Democrat 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 Alvin Victor "Honest Vic" Donahey (July 7, 1873April 8, 1946) was an American Democratic Party politician from Ohio. Donahey was the 50th governor of Ohio and a United States Senator from Ohio. Donahey left school early to become a printer; in a ...

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 The Ohio District Courts of Appeals are the intermediate appellate courts of the U.S. state of Ohio. The Ohio Constitution provides for courts of appeals that have jurisdiction to review final appealable orders. There are twelve appellate districts ...

. 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

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, a

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, 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