About Isaac Wayne
Lived 1772 – 1852 (aged 79–80). Isaac Wayne was an American politician and lawyer.
Isaac Wayne (1772 – October 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 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.
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 to American Revolutionary War General Anthony Wayne and Mary Penrose Wayne. He graduated from Dickinson College in Carlisle, Pennsylvania, in 1792,
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 Federalist candidate for governor in 1814, but was elected to the Eighteenth Congress.
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
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Isaac Wayne was born in 1772 in Philadelphia.
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Isaac Wayne died on 25 October 1852 in Chester County.
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