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Isaac Newton Arnold (November 30, 1815, Hartwick, New York – April 24, 1884, Chicago) was an attorney, American politician, and biographer who made his career in Chicago. He served two terms in the United States House of Representatives (1860-1864) and in 1864 introduced the first resolution in Congress proposing a constitutional amendment to abolish slavery in the United States. After returning to Chicago in 1866, he practiced law and wrote biographies of Abraham Lincoln and Benedict Arnold.
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Isaac Newton Arnold was born on November 30, 1815 in Hartwick, New York, United States. He was the son of Dr. George Washington Arnold and his wife, Sophia M. Arnold, both born in Rhode Island. His grandfather was Thomas Arnold, a soldier of the Revolution.
Isaac was educated at local schools.
Thrown on his own resources at fifteen he taught school and studied law in the offices of Richard Cooper and Judge E. B. Morehouse at Cooperstown.
In 1835 he was admitted to the bar; after a year's practise he came to Chicago in 1836, the year before its incorporation as a city. Here he formed a law partnership with Mahlon D. Ogden, also a New Yorker, which lasted till 1847.
His legal practice, both criminal and civil, was large and important. In 1841 he was concerned in the case of Bronson vs. Kinzie decided by the United States Supreme Court in accord with his contention that the state stay law (allowing relief from foreclosure if land did not bring two-thirds its appraised value at auction) was unconstitutional.
As a Democratic politician he opposed repudiation of the state's indebtedness in 1842; he was one of the persons among whom is to be shared the credit for the plan that finally extricated the state from debt. He served in the General Assembly, 1842-45, where he was chairman of the house committee on finance.
He was presidential elector for Polk in 1844. Arnold took an active part in the Free-Soil movement of 1848, going as a delegate to the national and state conventions. He was one of the Chicago committee appointed to draw resolutions of protest against the Fugitive Slave Law in October, 1850.
He was elected to the General Assembly in 1856 as a Republican. In 1860 he was elected to Congress and at once assumed a position of prominence.
In December 1861, as chairman of the committee on defense of lakes and rivers, he pressed a measure for enlarging the Illinois and Michigan Canal to permit the passage of warships from the Mississippi to the Lakes. In this connection he was active in securing a National Canal Convention at Chicago in 1863. In January 1865 his measure finally passed the House but failed in the Senate.
In his second term he was chairman of the roads and canals committee. His record continued to be one of out-spoken hostility to slavery. On March 24, 1862, he introduced a bill to prohibit slavery in every place subject to national authority, which became a law June 19, 1862.
He made an able speech in support of the second confiscation act, May 23, 1862. On February 15, 1864, he moved the amendment abolishing slavery in the United States. He served as auditor of the treasury for the Post Office Department, 1865-1866.
As his political career ended, his literary career began. In 1866 he published The History of Abraham Lincoln and the Overthrow of Slavery. In 1880 he published a Life of Benedict Arnold.
At his death in 1884 he was on the point of finishing his Life of Abraham Lincoln. This is the best known of his historical works. Although frankly eulogistic, it was for some time the best biography available, and has of course today the value of a source.
Arnold's literary style was clear, simple, and enjoyable. Compared with the standards of his time, his historical workmanship is generally competent.
Arnold was one of the founders of the Chicago Historical Society and had procured its charter when a member of the General Assembly in 1857. He delivered the address dedicating its building, November 19, 1868, and on December 19, 1876, he was elected its president.
A series of papers given by him before the Society has been published by it.
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He was twice married: first, to Catherine E. Dorrance of Pittsfield, Massachussets, who died Oct. 30, 1839, leaving one child; and second, to her sister, Harriet Augusta Dorrance, by whom he had nine children.
