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Draft:Thomas Arnold (Rhode Island judge)

Thomas Arnold (1750 – November 8, 1826)[1] was an associate justice of the Rhode Island Supreme Court from June 1785 to May 1786, and later Chief Justice from June 1809 to May 1810.[2]

Arnold was secretary of the Brown University Corporation from 1776 to 1780.[3]

In the class of 1771, graduated Thomas Arnold, of Providence, with the first honors of his class; he was elected to the Fellowship in 1774, and Secretary of the Corporation in 1776. He possessed a strong mind, well adapted to the profession of the law, to which he for sometime devoted himself. He was appointed a Judge of the Supreme Court of Rhode Island, which office he declined. He became afterwards a distinguished member of the Society of Friends.[4]

"Thomas Arnold of the class of 1771 was chief justice from 1809 to 1810".[5]

"Thomas Arnold, A. M. Lawyer, Providence, R. I. ; chief justice R. I. supreme court 1809-10; fellow Brown university 1774-82; secretary 1776-80. Died 1826".[6]

Of Providence.[7]

Arnold died in North Providence at the age of 76.[1]

References

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  1. ^ a b "Deaths", Literary Cadet and Rhode-Island Statesman (November 11, 1826), p. 3.
  2. ^ Manual - the State of Rhode Island and Providence Plantations (1891), p. 208-13.
  3. ^ Walter Cochrane Bronson, The History of Brown University, 1764-1914 (1914), p. 101.
  4. ^ John Pitman, Address to the Alumni Association of Brown University (1843), p. 15.
  5. ^ The Brown Alumni Monthly, Vol. 3 (1902), p. 209.
  6. ^ Harry Lyman Koopman, Historical Catalogue of Brown University: Providence, Rhode Island, 1764-1894 (1895), p. 28.
  7. ^ Samuel H. Allen, "Rhode Island Judiciary", in James N. Arnold, ed., The Narragansett Historical Register (1889), Volume 7, p. 6_.


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