Isaac Bloom

Isaac Bloom (1748[1] – April 26, 1803) was an American politician and a United States Representative from New York.

Isaac Bloom
Member of the U.S. House of Representatives
from New York's 6th district
In office
March 4, 1803 – April 26, 1803
Preceded byJohn P. Van Ness
Succeeded byDaniel C. Verplanck
Member of the New York State Assembly
In office
1788-1792
Personal details
Born1748 (1748)
Jamaica, Province of New York, British America
DiedApril 26, 1803(1803-04-26) (aged 54–55)
Poughkeepsie, New York, U.S.
Citizenship United States
Political partyDemocratic-Republican Party
Professionmerchant politician
Military service
Allegiance United States of America
RankCaptain
UnitMinutemen of the Charlotte Precinct
Battles/warsAmerican Revolutionary War

Biography

Bloom was born in Jamaica in the Province of New York.

Career

Bloom later moved to Clinton, Dutchess County, New York, and was a captain of minutemen of the Charlotte precinct in Dutchess County in 1775. He was a merchant in 1784, and from 1788 to 1792 was a member of the New York State Assembly.

A delegate to the New York state convention in 1801, Bloom was also a member of the New York State Senate from 1800 to 1802. He was elected as a Democratic-Republican as a U. S. Representative for the sixth district of New York to the 8th United States Congress, but died before Congress met. The office was his from March 4, 1803, until his death on April 26, 1803.

Death

Bloom died in Poughkeepsie, New York.[2] Dutchess County, New York, on April 26, 1803 (age about 56 years). He is interred at Pittsbury Presbyterian Churchyard, Washington Hollow, New York.

See also

References
  1. Dutchess County Doorways, and Other Examples of Period-work in Wood, 1730-1830: with accounts of houses, places and people by Helen Wilkinson Reynolds (1931; page 54)
  2. A Collection of Abstracts from Otsego County, New York, Newspaper Obituaries by Gertrude Audrey Barber (1993; page 8)


U.S. House of Representatives
Preceded by
John P. Van Ness		 Member of the U.S. House of Representatives
from New York's 6th congressional district
March 4, 1803 – April 26, 1803 (death)		 Succeeded by
Daniel C. Verplanck
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