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Ralph L. Arnold (December 4, 1887 – September 23, 1948) was a justice of the Montana Supreme Court from 1939 to 1941.[1]
District Judge, 4th Judicial District, 1936-1939. He was born at Mount Pulaski, Illinois. Before he was of school age, his family moved to Tobias, Nebraska. He attended the law school at the University of Nebraska, Lincoln and graduated in 1911. In 1914 he married Marjorie Mason, a local schoolteacher, and they had three children. Shortly thereafter, Justice Arnold began his law practice in Missoula, Montana. From 1916 to 1919, he served as the Missoula County Public Administrator and on the Missoula County Public School board from 1924-1936. He was elected Mayor of Missoula in 1934 and again in 1936. He resigned as mayor in 1937 to become District Court Judge for the 4th Judicial District. Governor Roy E. Ayers appointed Justice Arnold to the Montana Supreme Court to fill the unexpired term of Justice Samuel V. Stewart but lost in re-election in 1938.[1]
He died in Missoula at the age of 61.[1]
References
edit- ^ a b c "Biographies and Histories of Montana's Justices, Judges, and Courts, 1865-2020" (PDF). State Law Library of Montana. 2020. p. 11.
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