Background
Roe, Arthur was born on July 18, 1878 in Shafter, Fayette County, Illinois, United States. Son of Ezekiel and Nancy Jane (Browning) Roe.
Roe, Arthur was born on July 18, 1878 in Shafter, Fayette County, Illinois, United States. Son of Ezekiel and Nancy Jane (Browning) Roe.
Bachelor of Laws, University of Illinois, 1901.
Roe received his law degree from University of Illinois Law School. He was the city attorney of Vandalia, Illinois and master of chancery of Fayette County, Illinois from 1911 to 1913. Roe was a Democrat. From 1913 until 1935, Roe served in the Illinois House of Representatives and was speaker of the house in 1933.
In 1935, Roe was appointed United States attorney 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.
Mason, Elk.
Married Clarabell Grigg, June 5, 1905 (died April. Married second, Elsie McGrue, June 18, 1917.