Amory Kinney (April 13, 1793 – November 20, 1859) was an American abolitionist and attorney who represented Polly Strong in the landmark State v. Lasselle case, tried in the Indiana Supreme Court, that freed Strong and set a precedent for other enslaved people in the state of Indiana.

The following year, he represented Mary Bateman Clark, an indentured servant, and won her freed at the state Supreme Court.

[1][2][a] He left the state for Cortlandville, New York, in 1815, to study law under Samuel Nelson, who was later a U.S. Supreme Court Chief Justice.

[1] Kinney married Hannah Bishop on January 6, 1821, in Knox County, Indiana.

John W. Osborn, a friend and his brother-in-law, also moved to Vincennes and became the editor of the newspaper The Western Sun.

[9] They worked with Moses Tabbs and Col. George McDonald to represent Polly Strong in her court cases against her slaveholder.

The case was first tried in the Knox County Circuit Courts, which ruled that Strong should remain enslaved.

[8] After the verdict, Kinney suffered significant injuries after being attacked by a proslavery mob.

He served on the board of trustees for the Terre Haute Public School beginning in January 1853.

[1] His law partner Samuel Gookins said of him, "With a clear, comprehensive and scrutinizing apprehension of legal principles he combined a firm, conscientious, and discriminating sense of justice and right.