Isaac Coles

Isaac Coles

Isaac Coles (born March 2, 1747 in Richmond , Colony of Virginia , †  June 3, 1813 in Chatham , Virginia ) was an American politician . Between 1789 and 1797 he represented the state of Virginia in the US House of Representatives twice .

Career

Isaac Coles grew up during the British colonial era and studied at the College of William & Mary in Williamsburg . He later joined the American Revolution and served in the Virginia State Militia during the Revolutionary War . He also embarked on a political career. Between 1780 and 1781 and from 1783 to 1788 he sat in the Virginia House of Representatives . In 1788 he was a delegate to the convention at which the state of Virginia ratified the United States Constitution. Coles voted against the adoption of the federal constitution. He lived on a plantation in Halifax County until 1798 , when he moved to Pittsylvania County . Coles was an opponent of the first federal government under President George Washington ( anti-administration faction ) and joined the Democratic Republican Party founded by Thomas Jefferson in the late 1790s .

In the first congressional elections Coles was elected in the sixth constituency of Virginia in the US House of Representatives, which was still in session in New York at the time , where he took up his new mandate on March 4, 1789. Until March 3, 1791, he initially completed a legislative period there. In the elections of 1792 he was re-elected to Congress. After being re-elected, he was able to complete two more legislative terms in Congress by March 3, 1797 .

After the end of his time in the US House of Representatives, Isaac Coles withdrew from politics. He died on June 3, 1813 on his Coles Hill plantation near Chatham. He was the father of Congressman Walter Coles (1790-1857) and a cousin of Patrick Henry .

Web links

• Isaac Coles in the Biographical Directory of the United States Congress (English)
• Isaac Coles in the database of Find a Grave (English)