Samuel West Peel was a U.S. Representative

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 from Arkansas

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.

Born near Batesville, Arkansas

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, Peel attended the common schools.
He served as clerk of the circuit court of Carroll County, Arkansas from 1858 to 1860.
He entered the Confederate service in 1861 as a private.

Peel was elected major of the Third Regiment, Arkansas Infantry, and later colonel of the Fourth Regiment, Arkansas Infantry.
He studied law.
He was admitted to the bar

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 and commenced the practice of his profession in Carrollton, Arkansas

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, in 1865.
He moved to Bentonville, Benton County, in 1867 and continued the practice of law.
He served as prosecuting attorney of the fourth judicial circuit of Arkansas 1873-1876.

Peel was elected as a Democrat

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 to the Forty-eighth

48th United States Congress

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 and to the four succeeding Congresses (March 4, 1883-March 3, 1893).
He served as chairman of the Committee on Indian Affairs (Fiftieth

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 and Fifty-second

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 Congresses).
He was an unsuccessful candidate for renomination in 1892.
He resumed the practice of law in Bentonville, Arkansas

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, and before the United States Court of Claims

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 at Washington, D.C.

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, until 1915.
He died in Bentonville, Arkansas

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, December 18, 1924.
He was interred in Bentonville Cemetery.
Peel, Oregon

Peel, Oregon

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 was named for him.

External links

• Samuel West Peel (1831–1924) in the Encyclopedia of Arkansas History & Culture
  Encyclopedia of Arkansas History & Culture
  The Encyclopedia of Arkansas History & Culture , a web-based reference work, is a project of the Butler Center for Arkansas Studies at the Central Arkansas Library System and is the only state encyclopedia sponsored by a public library...