Isaiah D. Clawson

Isaiah D. Clawson (1859)

Isaiah Dunn Clawson (born March 30, 1822 in Woodstown , Salem County , New Jersey , †  October 9, 1879 ibid) was an American politician . Between 1855 and 1859 he represented the state of New Jersey in the US House of Representatives .

Career

Isaiah Clawson visited the Delaware College in Newark ( Delaware ) and the Lafayette College in Easton ( Pennsylvania ). He then studied at Princeton College until 1840 . After a subsequent medical degree at the University of Pennsylvania in Philadelphia and his license as a doctor in 1843, he began to work in Woodstown in this profession. In the 1850s he joined the short-lived Opposition Party . In 1854 he was a member of the New Jersey General Assembly .

In the congressional election of 1854 Clawson was elected to the United States House of Representatives in Washington, DC in the first constituency of New Jersey , where he succeeded Nathan T. Stratton on March 4, 1855 . After a re-election, he was able to complete two legislative terms in Congress until March 3, 1859 . These were shaped by the events leading up to the civil war . During his first term in Congress, Isaiah Clawson switched to the Republican Party , which was founded in 1854 and was re-elected as its candidate in 1856.

In 1858 Clawson waived another congressional candidacy. After the end of his time in the US House of Representatives, he worked again as a doctor in Woodstown, where he died on October 9, 1879.

Web links

• Isaiah D. Clawson in the Biographical Directory of the United States Congress (English)

• Isaiah D. Clawson in the database of Find a Grave (English)