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Bill Scrimshire

American politician

Correspondence, annotated notebooks and portrait silhouettes prepared for research
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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionAug 5, 2025
Entity authorityQ131787633 ↗
Source-derived summary

Bill Scrimshire (January 16, 1938 – September 5, 2024) was an American politician who served in the Arkansas House of Representatives from 1999 to 2005.

He died on September 5, 2024, in Malvern, Arkansas at age 86.

Editorial summary

“Bill Scrimshire” enters the record as american politician. Crown Archives preserves that source wording while asking what Bill, Scrimshire and American can confirm, complicate or overturn.

Editorial reviewStrongest as a route into the people, institutions and dated events that shaped the subject’s public record. The current lead gives the account dated anchors—1938, 2024, 1999, 2005—that can be checked directly. The linked authority record independently contributes the date 1938-01-16. Its strongest next move is a source search built around Bill, Scrimshire and American.
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Why this record matters

“Bill Scrimshire” is worth following because a concise public description often conceals a longer documentary argument. Here, Bill, Scrimshire and American provides the most credible route into that argument.

Evidence profile

Biographical claims are most persuasive when dates, appointments and relationships can be traced to records created close to the events described. The source revision retrieved here is dated Aug 5, 2025. The linked authority identifier is Q131787633. None of the 1 selected statements returned an explicit reference. The first chronological checks are 1938, 2024, 1999 and 2005.

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This entry incorporates text from “Bill Scrimshire” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.