Arthur Philip Lamneck was a four-term U.S. Representative

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 from Ohio

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Born in Port Washington, Ohio

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, Lamneck attended the public schools and graduated from the Port Washington High School in 1897. He engaged in the sheet metal business at Columbus, Ohio

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, from 1907 to 1929. Lamneck served as delegate to the Democratic National Convention

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 in 1924. He served as member of the Columbus City Council from 1913 to 1921.

Lamneck was elected as a Democrat

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 to the Seventy-second

72nd United States Congress

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 and to the three succeeding Congresses (March 4, 1931-January 3, 1939). He was an unsuccessful candidate for reelection in 1938 to the Seventy-sixth Congress

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 and for election in 1940 to the Seventy-seventh Congress

77th United States Congress

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He was an unsuccessful candidate for nomination for mayor of Columbus, in 1943. He engaged in the wholesale coal

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business from 1939 until his death at Columbus, April 23, 1944. Lamneck was interred in Port Washington Cemetery in Port Washington, Ohio.