{{Short description|American politician}} {{Infobox officeholder | honorific_prefix = | name = Arthur B. Rouse | honorific_suffix = | image = Arthur Rouse - Harris Ewing2 cropped.jpg | alt = A man with receding black hair wearing a black jacket and tie and white shirt | state = [[Kentucky]] | district = [[Kentucky's 6th congressional district|6th]] | term_start = March 4, 1911 | term_end = March 3, 1927 | predecessor = [[Joseph L. Rhinock]] | successor = [[Orie Solomon Ware]] | birth_date = {{birth date|1874|06|20}} | birth_place = [[Burlington, Kentucky]] | death_date = {{death date and age|1956|01|25|1874|06|20}} | death_place = [[Lexington, Kentucky]] | resting_place = [[Lexington Cemetery]] | resting_place_coordinates = | birth_name = | party = [[Democratic Party (United States)|Democrat]] | other_party = <!--For additional political affiliations--> | spouse = | relations = | children = | alma_mater = [[Hanover College]]<br />[[University of Louisville School of Law]] | profession = [[Lawyer]] | signature = | signature_alt = | website = | footnotes = }}
'''Arthur Blyth Rouse''' (June 20, 1874 – January 25, 1956) was a [[United States House of Representatives|U.S. representative]] from [[Kentucky]].
==Early life== Born in [[Burlington, Kentucky]], Rouse attended the public schools, graduating from Boone County High School. He was graduated from [[Hanover College]], Indiana, in 1896 and from the Louisville Law School in 1900. He was [[Admission to the bar in the United States|admitted to the bar]] in 1900 and commenced practice in Burlington.
==Political career== In 1907, Rouse became the first secretary of the Kentucky State Racing Commission and served four years in that capacity. He then served as State revenue commissioner under Gov. [[Ruby Laffoon]]. He was secretary to Representatives [[Daniel Linn Gooch]] and [[Joseph L. Rhinock]]. He served as member of the Democratic State executive committee from 1903 to 1910.
Rouse was elected as a [[Democratic Party (United States)|Democrat]] to the [[62nd United States Congress|Sixty-second]] and to the seven succeeding Congresses (March 4, 1911 – March 3, 1927). He was not a candidate for renomination in 1926. He served as chairman of the Democratic National Congressional Committee from 1921 until he resigned in December 1924. He resumed the practice of law in [[Erlanger, Kentucky]], and operated several [[bus]] companies, including Dixie Traction.
He was appointed clerk of the [[United States District Court for the Eastern District of Kentucky]] on October 8, 1935, and served until his resignation due to ill health in January 1953. He died in [[Lexington, Kentucky]], January 25, 1956, and was interred at [[Lexington Cemetery]].
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