Arthur Ringwalt Rupley

Arthur Ring Walt Rupley ( born November 13, 1868 in West Fairview, Cumberland County, Pennsylvania, † November 11, 1920 in Carlisle, Pennsylvania ) was an American politician. Between 1913 and 1915 he represented the State of Pennsylvania in the U.S. House of Representatives.

Career

Arthur Rupley attended the Harrisburg Academy and the Cumberland Valley State Normal School in Shippensburg. After a subsequent law degree from the Dickinson School of Law in Carlisle and his 1891 was admitted as a lawyer, he began to work in this profession. At the same time he proposed as a member of the Republican Party launched a political career. Between 1895 and 1898 he was the district chairman in Cumberland County. From 1895 to 1899 he was there also District Attorney. Thereafter he served until 1906 as a legal representative of this district. In 1910 he took part in the regional Republican convention for Pennsylvania; in June 1912 he was a delegate to the Republican National Convention in Chicago, at the President William Howard Taft to be unsuccessful re-election has been nominated.

In the congressional elections of 1912 Rupley was in the 33 state-wide electoral district of Pennsylvania in the U.S. House of Representatives in Washington DC chosen, where he took up his new mandate on March 4, 1913. Until March 3, 1915, he was able to complete a term in Congress. During this time, the 16th and the 17th Amendment to the Constitution were ratified. It was about the nationwide introduction of the income tax and the direct election of U.S. senators.

After the end of his time in the U.S. House of Representatives Arthur Rupley again practiced as a lawyer. He specialized in the area of ​​public services. He died on November 11, 1920 in Carlisle, where he was also buried.