Samuel S. Arentz

Samuel S. Arentz
Member of the U.S. House of Representatives from Nevada's At-Large district
In office March 4, 1925 – March 3, 1933
Preceded by	Charles L. Richards
Succeeded by	James G. Scrugham
Member of the U.S. House of Representatives from Nevada's At-Large district
In office March 4, 1921 – March 3, 1923
Preceded by	Charles R. Evans
Succeeded by	Charles L. Richards
Personal details
Born	(1879-01-08)January 8, 1879 Chicago, Illinois
Died	Reno, Nevada
Political party	Republican
Profession	mining

Samuel Shaw (Ulysses) Arentz (January 8, 1879 – June 17, 1934) was a United States Representative from Nevada. A Republican, he served 10 years in Congress.

Biography

Arentz was born in Chicago, Illinois on January 8, 1879. He graduated from the Chicago Manual Training School in 1897 and from the South Dakota School of Mines at Rapid City in 1904. He was a member of the South Dakota National Guard at Rapid City from 1901 to 1904. He moved to Ludering, Nevada, in 1907, and to Salt Lake City, Utah, in 1912. He was engaged as surveyor, assessor, miner, and timberman in Bear Gulch and Butte, of Montana; the Bingham Canyon and Stockton, Utah; and the Lake Superior copper country, mining engineer and superintendent of mines in Idaho, Utah, Arizona, and Nevada. He also served as the chief engineer of railway companies in Nevada; a consulting engineer of the United States Bureau of Mines; a captain of Engineers, United States Army, during the First World War; and moved to a ranch in Lyon County, Nevada, near Simpson, 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 United States Senator. 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 Republican National Conventions in 1928 and 1932, and again engaged as a rancher near Simpson. He also resumed mining activities in Nevada and Utah.

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

References

• Samuel S. Arentz at the Biographical Directory of the United States Congress

External links

• Samuel Arentz at Find-A-Grave
• Our Campaigns

United States House of Representatives
Preceded by Charles R. Evans	United States House of Representatives, Nevada At-Large 1921–1923	Succeeded by Charles L. Richards
Preceded by Charles L. Richards	United States House of Representatives, Nevada At-Large 1925–1933	Succeeded by James G. Scrugham