Isaac Wayne was an American politician from Pennsylvania who served as a Federalist Party member of the US House of Representatives for Pennsylvania's 4th congressional district from 1823 to 1825.
11 Facts About Isaac Wayne
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Isaac Wayne previously served as a member of the Pennsylvania House of Representatives from 1799 to 1801 and in 1806, and served as a member of the Pennsylvania State Senate from 1807 to 1810.
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Isaac Wayne was the son of the American Revolutionary War General Anthony Wayne, and grandson of Pennsylvania Provincial Assembly member Isaac Wayne.
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Isaac Wayne graduated from Dickinson College in Carlisle, Pennsylvania, in 1792, then studied law and was admitted to the Chester County, Pennsylvania, bar in 1795.
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Isaac Wayne was a member of the Pennsylvania House of Representatives from 1799 to 1801 and 1806, and served in the Pennsylvania State Senate from 1807 to 1810.
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Isaac Wayne unsuccessfully ran as a Federalist candidate for governor in 1814, but was elected to the Eighteenth Congress.
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Isaac Wayne then transported his father's bones 300 miles East across Pennsylvania and reinterred them in St David's Episcopal Church in Radnor, Pennsylvania.
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In 1829, Isaac Wayne published a memoir of his father and his military career in The Casket.
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In 1840, Isaac Wayne was elected as a member to the American Philosophical Society.
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Isaac Wayne died at the family estate in Easttown Township, Pennsylvania on October 25,1852.
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Isaac Wayne was buried in the family plot at St David's Episcopal Church in Radnor, Pennsylvania.