James Frederick Arnold

James Frederick Arnold (1859–1929) was a New Zealand Member of Parliament for various Dunedin electorates.

1 Private life
2 Member of Parliament
- 2.1 Independent
3 Notes
4 References

Private life

Born in Guernsey, Arnold came to New Zealand in 1864. He was a bootmaker and trade union leader.^[1] Arnold was known as "the bootmakers lawyer" at the Industrial Conciliation & Arbitration (ICA) Court.^[2]

Member of Parliament

James Arnold represented City of Dunedin (1899–1905), Dunedin South (1905–08) and Dunedin Central (1908–11) in the New Zealand House of Representatives.^[3]

Independent

At the 1905 election, Arnold stressed his Independent credentials and said that the "present administration (i.e., Premier Richard Seddon's Liberal Government) were not all they should be", favoured the elective executive bill, and held himself at liberty to compel the Ministry to reconstruct.^[4]

Notes

^ Hamer 1988, p. 361.
^ Hamer 1988, p. 186.
^ Wilson 1985, p. 180.
^ Whitcher 1966, p. 242.

References

The New Zealand Parliamentary Record: 1840-1984 by J.O. Wilson (1985, Government Printer, Wellington)
The New Zealand Liberals: the Years of Power 1891-1912 by David Hamer (1988, Auckland University Press, Auckland)
The New Liberal Party 1905 by G.F. Whitcher (1966, MA Thesis-University of Canterbury, Christchurch)

Persondata
Name	Arnold, James Frederick
Alternative names
Short description	New Zealand politician
Date of birth	1859
Place of birth
Date of death	1929
Place of death