Earl C. Arnold
{{Short description|American academic administrator}}
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| birth_date = June 8, 1884
| birth_place = Iola, Kansas, U.S.
| death_date = November 21, 1949
| death_place = Nashville, Tennessee, U.S.
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Earl Caspar Arnold (8 June 1884 – 21 November 1949) was an American academic administrator. He served as the dean of the Vanderbilt University Law School from 1930 to 1945.
Early life
Arnold was born on 8 June 1884 in Iola, Kansas.{{cite web |title=Arnold, Earl C. (Earl Caspar), 1884-1949 |url=http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/no2011158838 |website=LC Name Authority File |publisher=Library of Congress |accessdate=31 August 2020}} He graduated from Baker University in 1906, and he earned a JD from the Northwestern University Pritzker School of Law in 1909.{{cite news |title=Earl C. Arnold |url=https://www.newspapers.com/image/111807482/?terms=%22Earl%2BC.%2BArnold%22 |accessdate=July 19, 2018 |work=The Tennessean |date=November 22, 1949|page=31|via=Newspapers.com|url-access=registration }}
Career
Arnold was a Law professor at the University of Idaho, the University of Florida, the University of Cincinnati and George Washington University. He was the dean of the Vanderbilt University Law School from 1930 to 1945.{{cite web |title=Vanderbilt Law School Deans |url=https://law.vanderbilt.edu/about-the-school/history/vanderbilt-law-school-deans.php |website=Vanderbilt Law School |accessdate=July 19, 2018}}
Arnold authored Outlines of Suretyship and Guardianship.{{cite journal |last1=Little |first1=Charles G. |title=Reviewed Work: Outline of Suretyship and Guaranty by Earl C. Arnold |journal=University of Pennsylvania Law Review and American Law Register |date=March 1928 |volume=76 |issue=5 |pages=625–626 |doi=10.2307/3307662 |jstor=3307662 }}
Personal life and death
Arnold married Susan Vaughan. They had a son and a daughter. They resided on Rosemont Avenue in Nashville. He was a member of the Cosmos Club.{{Cite book |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=kUY2ttKq71wC&q=cosmos |title=Who's who in the Nation's Capital |date=1926 |publisher=Consolidated Publishing Company |language=en}} At the time of his death, they were building a house in Montgomery County, Tennessee.
Arnold died on November 21, 1949, at Mid-State Baptist Hospital in Nashville.{{cite news |title=Earl C. Arnold |url=https://www.newspapers.com/image/111807877/?terms=%22Earl%2BC.%2BArnold%22 |accessdate=July 19, 2018 |work=The Tennessean |date=November 23, 1949|page=19|via=Newspapers.com|url-access=registration }} His funeral was held at the West End United Methodist Church in Nashville, and he was buried in Iola, Kansas.{{cite news |title=Dean Arnold Buried In Kansas |url=https://www.newspapers.com/image/353238984/?terms=%22Earl%2BC.%2BArnold%22 |accessdate=July 19, 2018 |work=The Leaf-Chronicle |date=November 23, 1949|page=1|via=Newspapers.com|url-access=registration }}
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Category:Baker University alumni
Category:Northwestern University Pritzker School of Law alumni
Category:University of Idaho faculty
Category:University of Florida faculty
Category:University of Cincinnati College of Law faculty
Category:George Washington University Law School faculty
Category:Vanderbilt University administrators
Category:Deans of law schools in the United States