Samuel Greene Arnold

U. S. Senator, Rhode Island, 1862-1863

Born: April 12, 1821, Providence, Rhode Island.

• Received his early education under private tutors.
  
• Brown University, Providence, Rhode Island, graduate, 1841
  
• Harvard University Law Department graduate, 1845.
  
• Admitted to the bar in 1845.
  
• Three years in travel and study in Europe and South America, 1845-1848.
  
• Commenced law practice in Providence, Rhode Island, 1848, and also engaged in historical research.
  
• Trustee of Brown University, Providence, Rhode Island, 1848-1880.
  
• Lieutenant Governor, Rhode Island, 1852, and in the absence of Governor Sprague was Acting Governor.
  
• Member of the Peace Commission held at Washington, D.C., 1861, in an effort to devise means to prevent the impending war.
  
• Re-elected Lieutenant Governor, Rhode Island, 1861 and 1862.
  
• During the Civil War organized a company of Light Artillery which went to Washington, D.C., and was mustered into the Union Army.
  
• Elected as a Republican to the U. S. Senate to fill the vacancy caused by the resignation of James F. Simmons, December 1, 1862 - March 3, 1863.
  
• Again engaged in historical research.
  
• President of the Rhode Island Historical Society, 1868-1880.

Died: February 14, 1880, Providence, Rhode Island.
Buried: Swan Point Cemetery, Providence, Rhode Island.

(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.)