Isaac Wildrick

Isaac Wildrick (born March 3, 1803 in Marksboro , Warren County , New Jersey , †  March 22, 1892 in Blairstown , New Jersey) was an American politician . Between 1849 and 1853 he represented the state of New Jersey in the US House of Representatives .

Career

Isaac Wildrick attended public schools in his home country and then worked in agriculture in Blairstown. In the following decades he held various local offices in his homeland. He was a police officer in Warren County from 1827 to 1832. He also served as a coroner from 1829 to 1831. After that he was justice of the peace from 1834 to 1839. He then held the post of sheriff in Warren County until 1841 . From 1842 to 1848, Wildrick ran the poor house in his district.

Politically, he was a member of the Democratic Party . Between 1845 and 1848 he was a member of the Warren County county council. In the congressional election of 1848 he was elected to the US House of Representatives in Washington, DC in the third constituency of New Jersey , where he succeeded Joseph E. Edsall on March 4, 1849 . After re-election, he was able to complete two legislative terms in Congress until March 3, 1853 . These were shaped by the discussions about slavery in the run-up to the civil war . In 1852, Isaac Wildrick declined to run again.

After his time in the US House of Representatives, he worked in agriculture. In the years 1856 to 1859 he was a district councilor again; from 1882 to 1885 he was a member of the New Jersey General Assembly despite his now advanced age . He died in Blairstown on March 22, 1892 and was buried in Marksboro.

Web links

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

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