Biographical Sketches of Members of Congress, Members of the Legislature, Officers of the State Governement and judges of the Supreme Court of Appeals, West Virigina, 1917 Source: West Virginia Legislative Hand Book and Manual and Official Register, 1917, Compiled and Edited by John T. Harris, Clerk of the Senate, The Tribune Printing Co., Charleston, West Va. pgs. 719 - 770 BIOGRAPHICAL SKETCHES pg. 722 ARNOLD, GOHEN CLARKE. (Republican.) Ad- dress: Buckhannon. Born in Buckhannon, Upshur county, January 5, 1885; educated in the common schools, at West Virginia Conference Seminary and West Virginia Uni- versity, receiving the degree of A. B.; is a practicing attor- ney; graduated from West Virginia University law school with the degree of LL. B.; elected to the Senate from the Thirteenth District in 1916; is a hold-over senator; in 1917 had committee assignments as follows: Joint Com- mittee on the part of the Senate on Enrolled Bills (Chair- man); Judiciary, Claims and Grievances, Forestry and Conservation, Counties and Municipal Corporations, Pro- hibition and Temperance, Labor,lRoads and Navigation. Submitted by: Valerie Crook