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| death_date = 20 July 1903 (aged 70)
| death_date = 20 July 1903 (aged 70)
| death_place = [[Johnson City, Tennessee]]
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'''Samuel Mayes Arnell''' (May 3, 1833 – July 20, 1903) was an American lawyer and politician who represented the [[Tennessee's 6th congressional district|6th congressional district]] of [[Tennessee]] in the [[United States House of Representatives]]. He was a staunch Unionist and served as a Republican. He had owned slaves.<ref>{{Citation|title=Congress slaveowners|date=2022-01-13|url=https://www.washingtonpost.com/history/interactive/2022/congress-slaveowners-names-list/|newspaper=The Washington Post|access-date=2022-01-15}}</ref><ref name=":0">{{Cite journal|last=Zebley|first=Kathleen R.|date=1994|title=Unconditional Unionist: Samuel Mayes Arnell and Reconstruction in Tennessee|url=https://www.jstor.org/stable/42627156|journal=Tennessee Historical Quarterly|volume=53|issue=4|pages=246–259|jstor=42627156|issn=0040-3261}}</ref>
'''Samuel Mayes Arnell''' (May 3, 1833 – July 20, 1903) was an American lawyer and politician who represented the [[Tennessee's 6th congressional district|6th congressional district]] of [[Tennessee]] in the [[United States House of Representatives]]. He was a staunch Unionist and [[Republican Party (United States)|Republican]]. He had owned slaves.<ref>{{Citation|title=Congress slaveowners|date=2022-01-13|url=https://www.washingtonpost.com/history/interactive/2022/congress-slaveowners-names-list/|newspaper=The Washington Post|access-date=2022-01-15}}</ref><ref name=":0">{{Cite journal|last=Zebley|first=Kathleen R.|date=1994|title=Unconditional Unionist: Samuel Mayes Arnell and Reconstruction in Tennessee|url=https://www.jstor.org/stable/42627156|journal=Tennessee Historical Quarterly|volume=53|issue=4|pages=246–259|jstor=42627156|issn=0040-3261}}</ref> He later served as school superintendent and postmaster. He wrote a memoir.


==Early life==
==Early life==
He was born on May 3, 1833 at Zion Settlement, near [[Columbia, Tennessee]] in [[Maury County, Tennessee|Maury County]]. He attended [[Amherst College]] in [[Amherst, Massachusetts]], studied law, was admitted to the [[bar association|bar]], and commenced practice in Columbia. He started a leather manufacturing business in 1859. He owned slaves.<ref name="Congress slaveowners">{{Citation|title=Congress slaveowners|date=2022-01-13|url=https://github.com/washingtonpost/data-congress-slaveowners|newspaper=The Washington Post|access-date=2022-07-04}}</ref> During the [[American Civil War|Civil War]], he supported the [[Union (American Civil War)|Union]] actively, suffering injury, threats to his life, and property damage from [[Confederate States of America|Confederate]] forces.<ref name="lib.utk.edu">[http://www.lib.utk.edu/spcoll/manuscripts/0823.html Samuel Mayes Arnell Collection, MS-0823. University of Tennessee Libraries, Knoxville, Special Collections.] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110927171433/http://www.lib.utk.edu/spcoll/manuscripts/0823.html |date=2011-09-27 }}</ref>
He was born on May 3, 1833, at Zion Settlement, near [[Columbia, Tennessee]], in [[Maury County, Tennessee|Maury County]]. He attended [[Amherst College]] in [[Amherst, Massachusetts]], studied law, was admitted to the [[bar association|bar]], and commenced practice in Columbia. He started a leather manufacturing business in 1859. He owned slaves.<ref name="Congress slaveowners">{{Citation|title=Congress slaveowners|date=2022-01-13|url=https://github.com/washingtonpost/data-congress-slaveowners|newspaper=The Washington Post|access-date=2022-07-04}}</ref> During the [[American Civil War|Civil War]], he supported the [[Union (American Civil War)|Union]] actively, suffering injury, threats to his life, and property damage from [[Confederate States of America|Confederate]] forces.<ref name="lib.utk.edu">[http://www.lib.utk.edu/spcoll/manuscripts/0823.html Samuel Mayes Arnell Collection, MS-0823. University of Tennessee Libraries, Knoxville, Special Collections.] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110927171433/http://www.lib.utk.edu/spcoll/manuscripts/0823.html |date=2011-09-27 }}</ref>


==Political offices==
==Political offices==
He was a member of the [[Tennessee State Constitution|Tennessee state constitutional]] convention in 1865. He served in the [[Tennessee House of Representatives]] in 1865 and 1866, where he authored a series of bills to expand voting rights to former slaves and that attempted unsuccessfully to strip the voting rights of former Confederate soldiers and officials for periods of 5 and 15 years, respectively;<ref name=":0" /> however, the definitions used to expand rights to blacks are seen by some historians as also having established an early version of the "one-drop" rule in Tennessee law.<ref>{{Cite web|title=44090_002|url=https://teva.contentdm.oclc.org/digital/collection/p15138coll18/id/3556/|access-date=2022-01-15|website=teva.contentdm.oclc.org|language=en}}</ref>
He was a member of the [[Tennessee State Constitution|Tennessee state constitutional]] convention in 1865. He served in the [[Tennessee House of Representatives]] in 1865 and 1866, where he authored a series of bills to expand voting rights to former slaves and that attempted unsuccessfully to strip the voting rights of former Confederate soldiers and officials for periods of 5 and 15 years, respectively;<ref name=":0" /> however, the definitions used to expand rights to blacks are seen by some historians as also having established an early version of the "one-drop" rule in Tennessee law.<ref>{{Cite web|title=44090_002|url=https://teva.contentdm.oclc.org/digital/collection/p15138coll18/id/3556/|access-date=2022-01-15|website=teva.contentdm.oclc.org|language=en}}</ref>


Upon the readmission of Tennessee to representation, he was elected as an [[Unconditional Unionist]] to the [[Thirty-ninth United States Congress|Thirty-ninth Congress]]. He was re-elected as a [[Republican Party (United States)|Republican]] to the [[Fortieth United States Congress|Fortieth]] and [[Forty-first United States Congress|Forty-first Congresses]]. He served from July 24, 1866 to March 3, 1871, but he was not a candidate for renomination in 1870. During the Forty-first Congress, he was the chairman of the [[United States House Committee on Expenditures in the State Department|Committee on Expenditures in the Department of State]]. He was chairman of the [[United States House Committee on Education and Labor]] during the Forty-first Congress. He also was a [[Delegate (American politics)|delegate]] to the [[Republican National Convention]] from Tennessee in 1868.<ref>[https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/7931239 Samuel Mayes Arnell (1833 - 1903) - Find A Grave Memorial<!-- Bot generated title -->]</ref>
Upon the readmission of Tennessee to representation, he was elected as an [[Unconditional Union Party|Unconditional Unionist]] to the [[Thirty-ninth United States Congress|Thirty-ninth Congress]]. He was re-elected as a [[Republican Party (United States)|Republican]] to the [[Fortieth United States Congress|Fortieth]] and [[Forty-first United States Congress|Forty-first Congresses]]. He served from July 24, 1866, to March 3, 1871, but he was not a candidate for renomination in 1870. During the Forty-first Congress, he was the chairman of the [[United States House Committee on Expenditures in the State Department|Committee on Expenditures in the Department of State]]. He was chairman of the [[United States House Committee on Education and Labor]] during the Forty-first Congress. He also was a [[Delegate (American politics)|delegate]] to the [[Republican National Convention]] from Tennessee in 1868.


==Private citizen==
==Private citizen==
He resumed the practice of law in [[Washington, D.C.]], then later returned to [[Columbia, Tennessee]]. He was the [[postmaster]] of Columbia from 1879 to 1885. He was the superintendent of public schools from 1885 to 1888.<ref name="lib.utk.edu"/> Near the end of his life, he authored his memoirs, "‘Ten Years of Tennessee History’ or ‘The War of Secession and Reconstruction in Tennessee, 1861-1871.’"<ref>{{Cite web|title='Ten Years of Tennessee History' {{!}} Calvin M. McClung Special Collections Catalog|url=https://mcclungcollection.knoxlib.org/subjects/7983|access-date=2022-01-15|website=mcclungcollection.knoxlib.org}}</ref>
He resumed the practice of law in [[Washington, D.C.]], then later returned to [[Columbia, Tennessee]]. He was the [[postmaster]] of Columbia from 1879 to 1885. He was the superintendent of public schools from 1885 to 1888.<ref name="lib.utk.edu"/> Near the end of his life, he authored his memoirs, "‘Ten Years of Tennessee History’ or ‘The War of Secession and Reconstruction in Tennessee, 1861-1871.’"<ref>{{Cite web|title='Ten Years of Tennessee History' {{!}} Calvin M. McClung Special Collections Catalog|url=https://mcclungcollection.knoxlib.org/subjects/7983|access-date=2022-01-15|website=mcclungcollection.knoxlib.org}}</ref>


He died on July 20, 1903 in [[Johnson City, Tennessee]] in [[Washington County, Tennessee|Washington County]]. He was [[burial|interred]] in Monte Visa Cemetery.
He died on July 20, 1903, in [[Johnson City, Tennessee]], in [[Washington County, Tennessee|Washington County]]. He was [[burial|interred]] in Monte Visa Cemetery.


==References==
==References==
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Samuel Mayes Arnell
Member of the United States House of Representatives from Tennessee's 6th district
In office
24 July 1866 – 3 March 1871
Preceded byJames H. Thomas
Succeeded byWashington C. Whitthorne
Tennessee House of Representatives
In office
1865–1866
Personal details
Born3 May 1833
Zion Settlement, Tennessee, U.S.
Died20 July 1903 (aged 70)
Johnson City, Tennessee, U.S.
Political partyUnconditional Union (1865–67)
Republican (after 1867)
Alma materAmherst College
OccupationAttorney, postmaster, superintendent of schools

Samuel Mayes Arnell (May 3, 1833 – July 20, 1903) was an American lawyer and politician who represented the 6th congressional district of Tennessee in the United States House of Representatives. He was a staunch Unionist and Republican. He had owned slaves.[1][2] He later served as school superintendent and postmaster. He wrote a memoir.

Early life

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He was born on May 3, 1833, at Zion Settlement, near Columbia, Tennessee, in Maury County. He attended Amherst College in Amherst, Massachusetts, studied law, was admitted to the bar, and commenced practice in Columbia. He started a leather manufacturing business in 1859. He owned slaves.[3] During the Civil War, he supported the Union actively, suffering injury, threats to his life, and property damage from Confederate forces.[4]

Political offices

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He was a member of the Tennessee state constitutional convention in 1865. He served in the Tennessee House of Representatives in 1865 and 1866, where he authored a series of bills to expand voting rights to former slaves and that attempted unsuccessfully to strip the voting rights of former Confederate soldiers and officials for periods of 5 and 15 years, respectively;[2] however, the definitions used to expand rights to blacks are seen by some historians as also having established an early version of the "one-drop" rule in Tennessee law.[5]

Upon the readmission of Tennessee to representation, he was elected as an Unconditional Unionist to the Thirty-ninth Congress. He was re-elected as a Republican to the Fortieth and Forty-first Congresses. He served from July 24, 1866, to March 3, 1871, but he was not a candidate for renomination in 1870. During the Forty-first Congress, he was the chairman of the Committee on Expenditures in the Department of State. He was chairman of the United States House Committee on Education and Labor during the Forty-first Congress. He also was a delegate to the Republican National Convention from Tennessee in 1868.

Private citizen

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He resumed the practice of law in Washington, D.C., then later returned to Columbia, Tennessee. He was the postmaster of Columbia from 1879 to 1885. He was the superintendent of public schools from 1885 to 1888.[4] Near the end of his life, he authored his memoirs, "‘Ten Years of Tennessee History’ or ‘The War of Secession and Reconstruction in Tennessee, 1861-1871.’"[6]

He died on July 20, 1903, in Johnson City, Tennessee, in Washington County. He was interred in Monte Visa Cemetery.

References

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  1. ^ "Congress slaveowners", The Washington Post, January 13, 2022, retrieved January 15, 2022
  2. ^ a b Zebley, Kathleen R. (1994). "Unconditional Unionist: Samuel Mayes Arnell and Reconstruction in Tennessee". Tennessee Historical Quarterly. 53 (4): 246–259. ISSN 0040-3261. JSTOR 42627156.
  3. ^ "Congress slaveowners", The Washington Post, January 13, 2022, retrieved July 4, 2022
  4. ^ a b Samuel Mayes Arnell Collection, MS-0823. University of Tennessee Libraries, Knoxville, Special Collections. Archived 2011-09-27 at the Wayback Machine
  5. ^ "44090_002". teva.contentdm.oclc.org. Retrieved January 15, 2022.
  6. ^ "'Ten Years of Tennessee History' | Calvin M. McClung Special Collections Catalog". mcclungcollection.knoxlib.org. Retrieved January 15, 2022.
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