Isaac Bacharach

Isaac Bacharach (born January 5, 1870 in Philadelphia , Pennsylvania , †  September 5, 1956 in Atlantic City , New Jersey ) was an American politician . Between 1915 and 1937 he represented the state of New Jersey in the US House of Representatives .

Career

In 1881 Isaac Bacharach moved with his parents to Atlantic City, where he attended public schools. He later worked in various fields such as real estate, timber trading and banking. At the same time he began a political career as a member of the Republican Party . Between 1905 and 1910 he was a member of the Atlantic City Council. In 1911 he was elected to the New Jersey General Assembly .

In the 1914 congressional election , Bacharach was elected to the US House of Representatives in Washington, DC in the second constituency of New Jersey , where he succeeded Democrat J. Thompson Baker on March 4, 1915 . After ten re-elections, he was able to complete eleven legislative terms in Congress by January 3, 1937 . During this time, the First World War and the Great Depression fell . During his tenure as a member of Congress, the 18th , 19th , 20th and 21st amendments were ratified. In June 1920 Bacharach was a delegate to the Republican National Convention in Chicago , where Warren G. Harding was nominated as a presidential candidate. Since 1933, many of the Federal Government's New Deal laws were passed under President Franklin D. Roosevelt , which Bacharach's party was rather hostile to.

In 1936 he was defeated by the Democrat Elmer H. Wene . After his tenure in the US House of Representatives, Isaac Bacharach returned to real estate in Atlantic City. He also worked in insurance. He died on September 5, 1956 in Atlantic City and was buried in Philadelphia. His younger brother Harry was mayor of Atlantic City several times between 1912 and 1935.

Web links

• Isaac Bacharach in the Biographical Directory of the United States Congress (English)

• Isaac Bacharach in the database of Find a Grave (English)