Arthur Roe (July 18, 1878 – April 17, 1942) was an American politician and lawyer.

Biography

Born in

Shafter, Illinois Shafter is an unincorporated community in Fayette County, Illinois Illinois ( ) is a U.S. state, state in the Midwestern United States, Midwestern United States. Its largest metropolitan areas include the Chicago metropolitan area, and th ...

, Roe moved with his parents to

Vandalia, Illinois Vandalia is a city in and the county seat of Fayette County, Illinois, United States. At the 2020 Census, the population was 7,458. Vandalia is northeast of St. Louis, on the Kaskaskia River. It served as the state capital of Illinois from 1 ...

. Roe received his law degree from

University of Illinois Law School The University of Illinois College of Law (Illinois Law or UIUC Law) is the law school of the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign, a public university in Champaign, Illinois. It was established in 1897 and offers the J.D., LL.M., and J.S. ...

. He was the city attorney of Vandalia, Illinois and master of chancery of Fayette County, Illinois from 1911 to 1913. Roe was a

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. From 1913 until 1935, Roe served in the

Illinois House of Representatives The Illinois House of Representatives is the lower house of the Illinois General Assembly. The body was created by the first Illinois Constitution adopted in 1818. The House under the current constitution as amended in 1980 consists of 118 re ...

and was speaker of the house in 1933. In 1935, Roe was appointed

United States Attorney United States attorneys are officials of the U.S. Department of Justice who serve as the chief federal law enforcement officers in each of the 94 U.S. federal judicial districts. Each U.S. attorney serves as the United States' chief federal c ...

for the United States District Court for the Eastern District of Illinois. Roe was still in that office when he died of a heart ailment in

East Saint Louis, Illinois East St. Louis is a city in St. Clair County, Illinois. It is directly across the Mississippi River from Downtown St. Louis, Missouri and the Gateway Arch National Park. East St. Louis is in the Metro-East region of Southern Illinois. Once a bu ...

References

1878 births 1942 deaths People from Fayette County, Illinois University of Illinois College of Law alumni Illinois state court judges Speakers of the Illinois House of Representatives Democratic Party members of the Illinois House of Representatives People from Vandalia, Illinois {{Illinois-Ilrepresentative-stub