Isaac Wayne (1772October 25, 1852) was an American politician from Pennsylvania who served as a
Federalist Party
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member of the
U.S. House of Representatives
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for
Pennsylvania's 4th congressional district
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from 1823 to 1825. He served as a member of the
Pennsylvania House of Representatives
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from 1799 to 1801 and in 1806. He served as a member of the
Pennsylvania State Senate
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from 1807 to 1810. He was the son of the American Revolutionary War General
Anthony Wayne
Anthony Wayne (January 1, 1745 – December 15, 1796) was an American soldier, officer, statesman, and one of the Founding Fathers of the United States. He adopted a military career at the outset of the American Revolutionary War, where his mil ...
, and grandson of Pennsylvania Provincial Assembly member
Isaac Wayne
Isaac Wayne (1772October 25, 1852) was an American politician from Pennsylvania who served as a Federalist Party member of the U.S. House of Representatives for Pennsylvania's 4th congressional district from 1823 to 1825. He served as a member ...
.
Biography
Wayne was born in 1772
[ at ]Waynesborough
Waynesborough, also known as the Gen. Anthony Wayne House, is a historic house museum at 2049 Waynesborough Road in Easttown Township, Chester County, Pennsylvania. Built in 1724 and repeatedly enlarged, it was for many years the home of American ...
, the family estate in Easttown Township, Pennsylvania
Easttown Township is a township in Chester County, Pennsylvania, United States. The population was 10,477 at the 2010 census.
History
The land that eventually became Easttown Township was once part of the Welsh Tract, a large expanse of land pr ...
to American Revolutionary War General Anthony Wayne and Mary Penrose Wayne. He graduated from Dickinson College
, mottoeng = Freedom is made safe through character and learning
, established =
, type = Private liberal arts college
, endowment = $645.5 million (2022)
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in Carlisle, Pennsylvania
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, in 1792,[ then studied law and was admitted to the ]Chester County, Pennsylvania
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, bar in 1795. He was a member of the Pennsylvania House of Representatives
The Pennsylvania House of Representatives is the lower house of the bicameral Pennsylvania General Assembly, the legislature of the U.S. state of Pennsylvania. There are 203 members, elected for two-year terms from single member districts.
It ...
from 1799 to 1801 and 1806,[ and served in the ]Pennsylvania State Senate
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from 1807 to 1810.
During the War of 1812
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, 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
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candidate for governor
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in 1814, but was elected to the Eighteenth Congress.[
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Personal life
On August 25, 1802, he married Elizabeth Smith and together they had five children.[
In 1809, Isaac traveled to ]Fort Presque Isle
Fort Presque Isle (also Fort de la Presqu'île) was a fort built by French soldiers in summer 1753 along Presque Isle Bay at present-day Erie, Pennsylvania, to protect the northern terminus of the Venango Path. It was the first of the French pos ...
to disinter his father from his burial site there. The body was in surprisingly good shape and since no embalming was available at the time, the flesh was boiled off the bones and re-buried at Fort Presque Isle. Isaac transported his father's bones 300 miles East across Pennsylvania and reinterred them in St. David's Episcopal Church in Radnor, Pennsylvania
Radnor is a community located approximately 13 miles west of Philadelphia, in the Main Line suburbs. It straddles Montgomery and Delaware Counties, Pennsylvania. The community was named after Radnor, in Wales.
Radnor is home to Cabrini Universi ...
.
In 1829, he published a memoir of his father and his military career in ''The Casket''.
In 1840, Wayne was elected as a member to the American Philosophical Society
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.
Isaac died at the family estate in Easttown Township, Pennsylvania on October 25, 1852. He is buried in the family plot[ at St. David's Episcopal Church in Radnor, Pennsylvania.]
Bibliography
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Biographical Memoir of Major General Anthony Wayne
', The Casket No. 5, pages 190-203, Philadelphia, May 1829
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1772 births
1852 deaths
19th-century American lawyers
19th-century American male writers
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Burials at St. David's Episcopal Church (Radnor, Pennsylvania)
Federalist Party members of the United States House of Representatives from Pennsylvania
Members of the American Philosophical Society
Members of the Pennsylvania House of Representatives
Military personnel from Pennsylvania
Pennsylvania lawyers
Pennsylvania state senators
People from Paoli, Pennsylvania
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