Samuel Shaw (Ulysses) Arentz (January 8, 1879 – June 17, 1934) was a

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from

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. A Republican, he served 10 years in Congress.

Biography

Arentz was born in

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, on January 8, 1879. He graduated from the Chicago Manual Training School in 1897 and from the

South Dakota School of Mines The South Dakota School of Mines & Technology (South Dakota Mines, SD Mines, or SDSM&T) is a public university in Rapid City, South Dakota. It is governed by the South Dakota Board of Regents and was founded in 1885. South Dakota Mines offers ba ...

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in 1904. He was a member of the

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at Rapid City from 1901 to 1904. He moved to Ludering,

, in 1907, and to

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, in 1912. He was engaged as surveyor, assessor, miner, and timberman in Bear Gulch and

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, of Montana; the Bingham Canyon and

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; and the Lake Superior copper country, mining engineer and superintendent of mines in

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, Utah,

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, and Nevada. He also served as the chief engineer of railway companies in Nevada; a consulting engineer of the

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; a captain of Engineers,

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, during the

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; and moved to a ranch in

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, near

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, in 1917. He was also engaged in mining and irrigation projects; He was elected as a Republican to the Sixty-seventh Congress (March 4, 1921 to March 3, 1923). He was not renominated, and was an unsuccessful candidate in the 1922 Republican primary election for

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. He was again elected as At-Large Representative from the Sixty-ninth to the three succeeding Congresses (March 4, 1925 to March 3, 1933). Arentz was an unsuccessful candidate for reelection in 1932 to the Seventy-third Congress. He was a delegate to the

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s in 1928 and 1932, and again engaged as a rancher near Simpson. He also resumed mining activities in Nevada and Utah. Arentz died in

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, where he had gone to receive medical treatment, on June 17, 1934. He is interred in Mountain View Cemetery in Reno, Nevada.

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