Samuel G. Arnold

Infobox Senator
name=Samuel Greene Arnold, Jr.


jr/sr=United States Senator
state=Rhode Island
party=Republican
term=December 1, 1862 – March 3, 1863
preceded=James F. Simmons
succeeded=William Sprague IV
date of birth=April 12, 1821
place of birth=Providence, Rhode Island, USA
date of death=death date and age|1880|2|14|1821|4|12
place of death=Providence, Rhode Island, USA
spouse=Louisa Gindrat Arnold
profession=Politician, Lawyer, Historian

Samuel Greene Arnold, Jr. (April 12, 1821 – February 14, 1880) was a United States Senator from Rhode Island. Born in Providence, Rhode Island, he received his early education under private tutors, and graduated from Brown University in 1841, and, in 1845, the law department of Harvard University, gaining admission to the bar that year. He was a lawyer and historian, and was trustee of Brown University from 1848 to 1880.

He married his cousin, Louisa Gindrat Arnold (1828-1905), the daughter of his father's uncle, Richard J. Arnold (1796-1873). Of Louisa he wrote that "...I have brought up my cousin for years to make her my wife, for I am so fastidious & particular on that matter that I knew I never should find a lady to suit me in all respects unless I educated her for the purpose. This is an original idea to be sure..." [Citation | first = Samuel G. | last = Arnold | year = 1847 | location = Paris, France | date = 16, March 1847]

Career

Arnold was elected lieutenant governor of Rhode Island in 1852 and served as Acting Governor. He was a member of the peace commission held at Washington, D.C. in 1861 in an effort to devise means to prevent the impending war.

In March 1861 Arnold was again elected Lieutenant-Governor after being nominated by the Constitutional Union and Democratic Conventions. [Citation | title = Rhode Island Politics | newspaper = New York Times | page = page 4 | year = 1861 | date = (7, March 1861)] Arnold was again elected Lieutenant-Governor in 1862. During the Civil War he raised a company of light artillery which went to Washington D.C. and was mustered into the Union Army. He was elected as a Republican to the U.S. Senate to fill the vacancy caused by the resignation of James F. Simmons, and served from December 1, 1862, to March 3, 1863. After his time in the Senate he returned to historical research and was president of the Rhode Island Historical Society from 1868 to 1880. Arnold died in Providence in 1880; interment was in Swan Point Cemetery.

Theodore Francis Green, Samuel Arnold's grandnephew, was also a U.S. Senator from Rhode Island.

References

*CongBio|A000295 Retrieved on 2008-02-14

External links

*findagrave|6844480 Retrieved on 2008-02-14
* [http://www.rihs.org/mssinv/Mss1054.HTM Samuel G. and Louisa G. Arnold papers]