Wallace, R. Minor (Robert Minor), 1856-1942

Lawyor, editor, and U.S. Representative from Arkansas.

Robert Minor Wallace was born in New London, Union County, Ark., 6 Aug. 1856. He attended the common schools, and was graduated from Arizona Seminary, Arizona, La., in 1876. He studied law and was admitted to the bar at Little Rock, Ark., in 1879 and commenced the practice of law in El Dorado, Ark. He was a member of the Arkansas House of Representatives (1881-1882); U.S. post office inspector (1887-1891); prosecuting attorney for the thirteenth judicial circuit of Arkansas (in 1891 and 1892); and assistant U.S. attorney (1894). He was elected as a Democrat to the Fifty-eighth and to the three succeeding Congresses (4 Mar. 1903-3 Mar. 1911). He was an unsuccessful candidate for renomination in 1910 to the Sixty-second Congress and resumed the practice of his profession at Hot Springs and Little Rock and also engaged in lecturing for the Chautauqua and for the Anti-Saloon League. He moved to Magnolia, Ark., where he died on 9 Nov. 1942.

From the description of R. Minor Wallace papers, 1871-1938. (Arkansas History Commission). WorldCat record id: 190810913