Isaac Clements

Isaac Clements (born March 31, 1837 in Brookville , Franklin County , Indiana , †  May 31, 1909 in Danville , Illinois ) was an American politician . Between 1873 and 1875 he represented the state of Illinois in the US House of Representatives .

Career

Isaac Clements attended the public schools of his home country and then until 1859 the Indiana Asbury College , later DePauw University in Greencastle . There he also studied law. It is not known whether he ever worked as a lawyer. Then he moved to Illinois. For some time Clements worked as a teacher. During the Civil War , he served as an officer in an Illinois infantry regiment that was part of the Union Army . In 1867 he became the registrar for bankruptcy cases. At the same time he embarked on a political career as a member of the Republican Party .

In the congressional election of 1872 , Clements was elected to the US House of Representatives in Washington, DC , in the then newly established 18th  electoral district of Illinois , where he took up his new mandate on March 4, 1873. Since he was not confirmed in 1874, he could only serve one term in Congress until March 3, 1875 . In 1877, Clements was appointed a federal commissioner for the prison system. Between 1890 and 1893 he worked in Chicago for the Federal Pension Agency. Since 1899 he lived in normal . There he became head of the orphanage for soldiers' children. He died in Danville on May 31, 1909.

Web links

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