Isaac Edward Holmes (April 6, 1796 – February 24, 1867) was a

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Biography

Isaac Edward Holmes was born in Charleston, South Carolina on April 6, 1796. He attended the common schools, received private tuition, and graduated from

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in 1815. He studied law and was admitted to the bar in 1818. He commenced practice in Charleston. He served as member of the Charleston city council and then in the

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in 1826-1829 and 1832-1833. Holmes was elected as a

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to the Twenty-sixth and five succeeding Congresses (March 4, 1839 – March 3, 1851). He served as chairman of the Committee on Commerce (Twenty-eighth Congress) and Committee on Naval Affairs (Twenty-ninth Congress). After his tenure in Congress, he practiced law in

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from 1851 to 1854, when he returned to Charleston, South Carolina. He again resided in San Francisco from 1857 to 1861. He returned to South Carolina in 1861 and was appointed a commissioner of the state to confer with the federal government prior to the outbreak of the

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. He died in Charleston on February 24, 1867 and was interred in Circular Churchyard.

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