US Congressman, Lawyer. He was a United States Representative from the State of Missouri. He was born one of six children as Sidney Crain Roach to Littleberry Irving Jackson Roach (1837-1886), and his wife Francis Margaret Crain Roach (1847-1908), in Old Linn Creek, Missouri, on July 25, 1876. He was educated locally and attended the local common public schools and eventually the prestigious St. Louis Law School, now the Washington University School of Law at Washington University in St. Louis, Missouri. Following his education, he was admitted to the bar in 1897 and commenced his practice of law in Linn, Creek, Missouri, shortly thereafter. He then served a term as the Prosecuting Attorney for Camden County, Missouri, from 1898 to 1909. He also became interested in politics and business pursuits. He served as a Member of the Missouri State House of Representatives from 1909 to 1913 and as a Delegate to the Republican National Convention in 1913. He was also the former President of the United States Theodore Roosevelt's Campaign Manager in 1913. He was drafted during World War I, but he never served. During this time, he also served as a Member of the Board of Directors of the National Bank of Linn Creek, Missouri, from 1900 to 1924. He then decided to run for a seat in the United States Congress and was elected to succeed the outgoing United States Representative William Lester Nelson (1875-1946), on March 4, 1921. A Member of the Republican Party, he then served Missouri's 8th District (Sixty-Sixth Congress and Sixty-Seventh Congress), in the United States House of Representatives from March 4, 1921, to March 3, 1925. In total, he was elected in 1920 and reelected again in 1922. While serving in the United States Congress, he served as the Chairman of the Committee on Expenditures in the Department of Justice representing the Sixty-Eighth Congress. He was an unsuccessful Candidate for reelection to represent the Sixty-Ninth Congress in 1924. Following his term in the United States Congress, he was succeeded in office by the incoming United States Representative William Lester Nelson (1875-1946), on March 4, 1925. After leaving the United States Congress, he moved to St. Louis, Missouri, where he resumed his practice of law and continued with his banking pursuits until his death on June 29, 1934, at the age of 57. He passed away from a long illness relating to a sudden heart attack and chronic cholecystitis at St. Mary's Hospital in Kansas City, Missouri, on June 29, 1934, at the age of 57. Following his death, his funeral service was held through Stine & McClure Undertaking Funeral Home in Kansas City, Missouri, and he was buried in Old Roach Cemetery in Roach, Missouri. On his headstone, he is remembered as an honest, lawyer, statesman, and true American. He was married to Edyth King Roach (1878-1955), in Linn Creek, Missouri, on October 25, 1899, and the couple had three children together including, Jackson King "Jack" Roach (1900-1947), Sidney Raymond Roach (1901-1955), and Bernice Elizabeth Roach Hunt (1910-1970). His son Jackson became a successful lawyer in Kansas City, Missouri.