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Isaac Wayne (1772October 25, 1852) was an American politician from Pennsylvania who served as a
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member of the
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for Pennsylvania's 4th congressional district from 1823 to 1825. He previously served as a member of the
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from 1799 to 1801 and in 1806, and served as a member of the
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from 1807 to 1810. He was the son of the American Revolutionary War General Anthony Wayne, and grandson of Pennsylvania Provincial Assembly member Isaac Wayne.


Biography

Wayne was born in 1772 at Waynesborough, the family estate in
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to American Revolutionary War General Anthony Wayne and Mary Penrose Wayne. He graduated from
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in
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, in 1792, then studied law and was admitted to the Chester County, Pennsylvania, bar in 1795. He was a member of the
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from 1799 to 1801 and 1806, and served in the
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from 1807 to 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
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candidate for governor in 1814, but was elected to the Eighteenth Congress.


Personal life

On August 25, 1802, Wayne married Elizabeth Smith and together they had five children. In 1809, he traveled to Fort Presque Isle 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. He then transported his father's bones 300 miles East across Pennsylvania and reinterred them in St. David's Episcopal Church in
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. In 1829, Wayne 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.


Death and interment

Wayne died at the family estate in Easttown Township, Pennsylvania on October 25, 1852. He was 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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