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ON THIS DAY IN HISTORY: November 30th 1815 Isaac Newton Arnold, born in upstate New York. This ambitious young lawyer relocated to frontier Chicago and was soon elected city clerk. He served three terms in the state house. In 1848, Arnold left the pro-slavery Democratic Party to co-found the Free Soil Party. His friend Abraham Lincoln running for president, he became a Republican and won election to the U.S. House of Representatives. Vigorous opposition to slavery was the focus of two terms. He was first to introduce a proposed constitutional amendment for the abolition of slavery. President Lincoln named him a Treasury Department auditor. Later years, Arnold wrote celebrated biographies of the Great Emancipator and Benedict Arnold. "Mr. Arnold was a man of great independence of character, thought, and action. Making up his mind as to what was right, he always acted up to his convictions. He never pandered to low tastes or popular prejudices. There was not the slightest tinge of the demagogue in all his composition." https://grandoldpartisan.blogspot.com/