Samuel Arnold (June 1, 1806 – May 5, 1869) was a

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from

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. Born in Haddam, Arnold attended the local academy at Plainfield, and

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. He devoted most of his life to agricultural pursuits. He acquired a controlling interest in a stone quarry, and became owner of a line of schooners operating between New York and

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. He was, also, for a number of years, president of the Bank of East Haddam. He served as member of the

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in 1839, 1842, 1844, and again in 1851. Arnold was elected as a

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(March 4, 1857 – March 3, 1859). He declined to be a candidate for renomination in 1858. He resumed agricultural pursuits and quarrying. He died in Haddam on May 5, 1869. He was interred in a mausoleum on his estate near Haddam.

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External links

Samuel Arnold (1806–1869) entry
at the

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{{DEFAULTSORT:Arnold, Samuel 1806 births 1869 deaths Democratic Party members of the Connecticut House of Representatives People from Haddam, Connecticut Democratic Party members of the United States House of Representatives from Connecticut 19th-century American politicians