Isaac Wayne

Isaac Wayne (1772  October 25, 1852) was a member of the U.S. House of Representatives from Pennsylvania, son of General "Mad" Anthony Wayne, and grandson of Isaac Wayne.

Isaac Wayne
Member of the
U.S. House of Representatives
from Pennsylvania
In office
March 4, 1823  March 3, 1825
Constituency4th district (1823-1825)
Personal details
Born
Isaac Wayne

1772 (1772)
Paoli, Province of Pennsylvania, British America
DiedOctober 25, 1852(1852-10-25) (aged 79–80)
Chester County, Pennsylvania, U.S.
Political partyFederalist Party
RelativesAnthony Wayne (father)
Isaac Wayne (grandfather)
Samuel Van Leer (uncle)
EducationDickinson College
Military service
Branch/service U.S. Army
Years of service1812-1823
Rank Colonel
Battles/warsWar of 1812

Biography

Wayne was born in 1772[1] at Waynesborough, the family estate in Paoli in the Province of Pennsylvania. He graduated from Dickinson College in Carlisle, Pennsylvania, then studied law and was admitted to the Chester County, Pennsylvania, bar in 1795. He was a member of the Pennsylvania House of Representatives from 1799 to 1801 and 1806, and served in the Pennsylvania State Senate in 1810. During the War of 1812, Wayne was captain of a troop of Pennsylvania Horse Cavalry, raised and equipped by himself, and was subsequently colonel of the Second Regiment, Pennsylvania Volunteer Infantry.

Wayne unsuccessfully ran as a Federalist candidate for Governor in 1814, but was elected to the Eighteenth Congress. He died in Chester County on October 25, 1852. He is buried in the family plot at St. David's (Radnor) Episcopal Church in Radnor, Pennsylvania.

Notes

  1. Anthony and Mary (Penrose) Wayne Family Bible http://genealogycenter.info/bibles/viewbiblepage_wayneanthony.php?p=10

Sources

  • United States Congress. "Isaac Wayne (id: W000217)". Biographical Directory of the United States Congress.
  • Pleasants, Henry; Delaware County Historical Society (1907). History of Old St. David's Church Radnor, Delaware County, Pennsylvania. John C.Winston Co. pp. 206.
  • The Political Graveyard
  • Encyclopedia Dickinsonia
Party political offices
Preceded by
William Tilghman
Federalist nominee for Governor of Pennsylvania
1814
Succeeded by
Joseph Hiester
U.S. House of Representatives
Preceded by
James S. Mitchell
Member of the U.S. House of Representatives
from Pennsylvania's 4th congressional district

1823–1825

alongside: James Buchanan and Samuel Edwards

Succeeded by
James Buchanan
Samuel Edwards
Charles Miner


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