Snider was born on September 7, 1880, in Willow Ranch, California, just a few miles south of the Oregon border.

His father managed the Willow Ranch store in California, before opening a business in nearby Lakeview, Oregon.

In 1890, President Benjamin Harrison appointed his father superintendent of the United States General Land Office in Lakeview.

[11] During this time, Snider married Frances Matilda Jones, whose father owned a large cattle ranch in Paisley, Oregon.

The newspaper highlighted his service as deputy sheriff as well as his experience working with county and United States Lands Office records.

[21] One of the major challenges sheriff Snider faced was the enforcement of local liquor prohibition laws.

[23] During the summer of 1913, Snider gain wide notoriety for an arrest he made outside his Lake County jurisdiction.

After a quick investigation to confirm the individual's identity, he arrested the escapee and delivered him to the local authorities in Bend.

[24][25][26] During World War I, Snider was appointed by the Governor to serve on the Lake County Draft Exemption Board.

After her death, he entered into a partnership with his sister-in-law, Anna Jones, who owned the remaining share of the ranch.

[1] In 1931, Snider was elected vice president of Oregon Taxpayers Equalization and Conservation League, a group dedicated to limiting property taxes and reducing the cost of government.

Ultimately, no other candidates filed for the race, so Snider won the primary and then the general election unopposed.

[39] During the session, Snider was a member of the legislature's powerful Joint Ways and Means Committee, responsible for handling matters related to the state budget.

In August 1933, Snider was selected as a delegate to Oregon's convention called to vote on repeal of the Eighteenth Amendment to the United States Constitution.

When he ran for re-election in 1934, he not only won the Republican nomination unopposed, but was also endorsed by the local Democratic Party.

[48] Snider also served as chairman of the Public Lands Committee, using that position to champion agricultural interests throughout the state.

[54][55][56] He was also favored to win the general election,[57] but he lost by 68 votes to C. W. E. Jennings, a merchant from the small Lake County community of Valley Falls.

[60] He continued to serve as president of the Lakeview National Farm Loan Association, a post he had first been elected to in 1932 when the organization was first incorporated.

[66][67][68] He was also elected president of the Lake County Stockgrowers Association, a local group that represented producers of all types of commercial livestock.