The 66th United States Congress transferred Fort Roots to the Public Health Service department on March 4, 1921, for conversion to a veterans hospital for neuropsychiatric disorders.
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They were chosen as a strategic vantage point on which to build Fort Logan H. Roots, which eventually became a hospital in the Department of Veterans Affairs system.
Upon the readmission of Arkansas to the Union, Roots was elected as a Republican to the Fortieth Congress.
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He was an unsuccessful candidate for reelection in 1870 to the Forty-second Congress.
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He was reelected to the Forty-first Congress and served from June 22, 1868, to March 3, 1871.
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