Isaac Griffin

Isaac Griffin (born February 27, 1756 in Kent County , Delaware Colony , †  October 12, 1827 in Fayette County , Pennsylvania ) was an American politician . Between 1813 and 1817 he represented the state of Pennsylvania in the US House of Representatives .

Career

Isaac Griffin attended Delaware public schools. He later moved to Fayette County, Pennsylvania, where he worked in agriculture. During the Revolutionary War he was a captain in the American armed forces. In 1794 he became a justice of the peace in his homeland. Politically, he joined the Democratic Republican Party founded by Thomas Jefferson . Between 1807 and 1811 he was a member of the Pennsylvania House of Representatives .

In the congressional elections of 1812 , Congressman John Smilie , who was already serving in another constituency , was elected to the US House of Representatives in Washington, DC in the then newly established 13th District of Pennsylvania . But he died before the beginning of the new legislative period. Griffin was then elected as his successor to Congress , where he took up his new mandate on May 24, 1813. After being re-elected, he could remain there until March 3, 1817. This period was initially shaped by the events of the British-American War .

In 1816, Isaac Griffin was not re-elected. He then withdrew from politics. He died on October 12, 1827, after falling from a car on his Fayette County estate. His great-grandson Eugene McLanahan Wilson (1833-1890) was a member of Congress for Minnesota , his great-great-grandson Charles H. Griffin (1926-1989) for the state of Mississippi .

Web links

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

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

predecessor	Office	successor
new constituency	United States House Representative for Pennsylvania (13th constituency) May 24, 1813 - March 3, 1817	Christian Tarr