Jacob C. Isacks
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Jacob C. Isacks (January 1, 1767August 31, 183

was an American politician who represented
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in the
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.


Biography

Isacks was born in Montgomery County in the
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and later moved to
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. He was elected as a
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to the Eighteenth Congress and was re-elected as a Jacksonian to the Nineteenth through Twenty-second Congresses. He was in office from March 4, 1821 to March 3, 1833. He was chairman of the U.S. House Committee on Public Lands during the Twentieth and Twenty-first Congresses. He was an unsuccessful candidate for re-election in 1832. He owned slaves. He died in Winchester, Tennessee. The location of his place of interment is unknown.


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1767 births 1835 deaths Politicians from Montgomery County, Pennsylvania People of colonial Pennsylvania Democratic-Republican Party members of the United States House of Representatives from Tennessee Jacksonian members of the United States House of Representatives from Tennessee American slave owners {{Tennessee-politician-stub