Isaac Wayne (1772October 25, 1852) was an American politician from Pennsylvania who served as a

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member of the U.S. House of Representatives for Pennsylvania's 4th congressional district from 1823 to 1825. He served as a member of the

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from 1799 to 1801 and in 1806. He served as a member of the

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from 1807 to 1810. He was the son of the American Revolutionary War General

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, and grandson of Pennsylvania Provincial Assembly member Isaac Wayne.

Biography

Wayne was born in 1772 at

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, the family estate in Easttown Township, Pennsylvania to American Revolutionary War General Anthony Wayne and Mary Penrose Wayne. He graduated from

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, in 1792, then studied law and was admitted to the

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, bar in 1795. He was a member of the

from 1799 to 1801 and 1806, and served in the

from 1807 to 1810. During the

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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

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candidate for

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in 1814, but was elected to the Eighteenth Congress.

Personal life

On August 25, 1802, he married Elizabeth Smith and together they had five children. In 1809, Isaac traveled to

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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

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. 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

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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

*
Biographical Memoir of Major General Anthony Wayne
', The Casket No. 5, pages 190-203, Philadelphia, May 1829

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