Isaac Newton Arnold

U. S. House of Representatives, Illinois, 1861-1865

Born: November 30, 1815, Hartwick, Otsego County, New York.

• Attended the district and select schools and Hartwick Seminary.
  
• Taught school in Otsego County, New York, 1832-1835.
  
• Studied law, was admitted to the bar in 1835, and commenced practice in Cooperstown, Otsego County, New York.
  
• Moved to Chicago, Illinois, in 1836, and continued the practice of law.
  
• Was elected as City Clerk of Chicago in 1837, but had served only a short time when he resigned to devote his entire efforts to his law practice.
  
• Delegate to the Illinois Democratic State convention, 1842.
  
• Member of the Illinois State House of Representatives, 1842 and 1843.
  
• Presidential elector on the Illinois Democratic ticket of Polk and Dallas, 1844.
  
• Delegate to the Free-Soil National Convention at Buffalo, New York, 1848.
  
• Again a member of the Illinois State House of Representatives, 1855, and was an unsuccessful candidate for speaker.
  
• Unsuccessful candidate for the Illinois Republican nomination to Congress, 1858.
  
• Elected as a Illinois Republican to the Thirty-seventh and Thirty-eighth U. S. Congresses, March 4, 1861 - March 3, 1865.
  
• Declined to be a candidate for renomination, 1864.
  
• During the Civil War acted as aide to Colonel Hunter at the Battle of 1st Mannassas (Bull Run).
  
• Served as Sixth Auditor of the U. S. Treasury, Washington, D.C., April 29, 1865 - September 29, 1866, when he resigned.
  
• Resumed the practice of law and also engaged in literary pursuits.
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Died: April 24, 1884, Chicago, Illinois.
Buried: Graceland Cemetery, Chicago, Illinois.

(Source: U.S. Congress. House. Biographical Directory Of The American Congress 1774-1949, 85th Cong., 2nd sess., H. Doc. 607 (Washington, D.C.: U.S. Government Printing Office, 1950), pp. 759-2057.)