Samuel Roy McKelvie

Samuel Roy McKelvie
19th Governor of Nebraska
In office January 9, 1919 – January 3, 1923
Lieutenant	Pelham A. Barrows
Preceded by	Keith Neville
Succeeded by	Charles W. Bryan
13th Lieutenant Governor of Nebraska
In office 1913–1915
Governor	John H. Morehead
Preceded by	John H. Morehead (acting) Melville R. Hopewell
Succeeded by	James Pearson
Member of the Nebraska House of Representatives
In office Elected 1910
Personal details
Born	(1881-04-15)April 15, 1881 near Fairfield, Nebraska
Died	January 6, 1956(1956-01-06) (aged 74) Mesa, Arizona
Resting place	Wyuka Cemetery
Political party	Republican
Spouse	Martha Groves De Arnold (1886-1976)
Children	2
Alma mater	University of Nebraska Lincoln Business College

Samuel Roy McKelvie (April 15, 1881 – January 6, 1956) was an American politician from the U.S. state of Nebraska. McKelvie served as the 19th governor of Nebraska, from 1919 to 1923. He was also the 13th lieutenant governor of Nebraska, from 1913 to 1915.

McKelvie was born near Fairfield, Nebraska. He attended the University of Nebraska and graduated from Lincoln Business College in 1901. He married Martha (Flossie) DeArnold on June 19, 1904, and the couple had two children.^[1] As Martha McKelvie, his spouse was a noted silent movie columnist, and, starting three years after his death, the author of what became a total of twenty-four books, one of them, Presidents, Politicians and People I Have Known, a memoir.^[2]