Samuel Mayes Arnell

Samuel Mayes Arnell (born May 3, 1833 in Columbia , Maury County , Tennessee , †  July 20, 1903 in Johnson City , Tennessee) was an American politician . Between 1866 and 1871 he represented the state of Tennessee in the US House of Representatives .

Career

Samuel Arnell attended Amherst College in Massachusetts . After a subsequent law degree and his admission as a lawyer, he began to work in Columbia in his new profession. At the same time he embarked on a political career. During the civil war he stuck to the north as a unionist . In 1865 he was a delegate to a meeting to revise the Tennessee Constitution. He also served as an MP in the Tennessee House of Representatives in 1865 and 1866 .

After the resumption of the state of Tennessee into the Union, Arnell was elected as a Unionist in the sixth constituency of Tennessee to the US House of Representatives in Washington, DC , where he took up his new mandate on July 24, 1866. After two re-elections, he could remain in Congress until March 3, 1871 . Since the regular congressional election of 1866 he was elected as a Republican because he had since joined this party. During his time as a congressman, there was a narrowly failed impeachment trial against President Andrew Johnson . In 1868 and 1870 the 14th and 15th amendments to the Constitution were passed. From 1867 to 1869 Arnell was chairman of the State Department's Expenditure Control Committee; from 1869 to 1871 he headed the education and working committee.

In 1870, Samuel Arnell renounced another congressional candidacy. In the following years he initially stayed as a lawyer in the federal capital Washington. He later returned to Columbia, Tennessee; there he was a post holder between 1879 and 1884 . He then served as a school councilor between 1884 and 1886. He died in Johnson City on July 20, 1903.

Web links

• Samuel Mayes Arnell in the Biographical Directory of the United States Congress (English)

• Samuel Mayes Arnell in the database of Find a Grave (English)