Arthur W. Overmyer
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Arthur Warren Overmyer (May 31, 1879 - March 8, 1952) was a U.S. Representative from Ohio.
Born near Lindsey, Ohio, Overmyer attended the public schools and also Lima Lutheran College. He taught school. He was graduated from the Ohio Northern University Law School at Ada in 1902. He was admitted to the bar in 1902 and commenced practice in Fremont, Ohio. He served as clerk of the Fremont Board of Health 1907-1910. City solicitor 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 court of common pleas 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. George White to a vacancy in the Ohio Sixth District Court of Appeals.
Overmyer was elected in 1936 for a six-year term. In 1942 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 Fremont, Ohio, until his retirement in 1951. He died in North Royalton, Ohio, March 8, 1952. He was interred in Four-Mile House Cemetery, near Fremont, Ohio.
