Isaac Wayne
Member of the
U.S. House of Representatives
from Pennsylvania
In office
March 4, 1823 – March 3, 1825
Constituency4th district (1823-1825)
Pennsylvania State Senate
In office
1807 to 1810
Pennsylvania House of Representatives
In office
1799 to 1801
1806
Personal details
Born1772 (1772)
Easttown Township, Province of Pennsylvania, British America
DiedOctober 25, 1852(1852-10-25) (aged 79–80)
Easttown Township, Pennsylvania, U.S.
Resting placeSt. David's Episcopal Church, Radnor, Pennsylvania, U.S.
Political partyFederalist Party
RelativesAnthony Wayne (father)
Isaac Wayne (grandfather)
Samuel Van Leer (uncle)
EducationDickinson College
Military service
Branch/service U.S. Army
Years of service1812-1823
Rank Colonel
Battles/warsWar of 1812

Isaac Wayne (1772 – October 25, 1852) was an American politician from Pennsylvania who served as a Federalist Party member of the U.S. House of Representatives for Pennsylvania's 4th congressional district from 1823 to 1825. He previously served as a member of the Pennsylvania House of Representatives from 1799 to 1801 and in 1806, and served as a member of the Pennsylvania State Senate from 1807 to 1810.

He was the son of the American Revolutionary War General Anthony Wayne, and grandson of Pennsylvania Provincial Assembly member Isaac Wayne.

Biography

Wayne was born in 1772[1] at Waynesborough, the family estate in Easttown Township, Pennsylvania[2] to American Revolutionary War General Anthony Wayne and Mary Penrose Wayne.[3] He graduated from Dickinson College in Carlisle, Pennsylvania, in 1792,[3] then studied law and was admitted to the Chester County, Pennsylvania, bar in 1795. He was a member of the Pennsylvania House of Representatives from 1799 to 1801 and 1806,[1] and served in the Pennsylvania State Senate from 1807 to 1810.[4]

During the War of 1812, Wayne was captain of a troop of Pennsylvania Horse Cavalry, raised and equipped by himself, and was subsequently colonel of the Second Regiment, Pennsylvania Volunteer Infantry.[1]

Wayne unsuccessfully ran as a Federalist candidate for governor in 1814, but was elected to the Eighteenth Congress.[1]

Personal life

On August 25, 1802, Wayne married Elizabeth Smith and together they had five children.[3]

In 1809, he traveled to Fort Presque Isle to disinter his father from his burial site there. The body was in surprisingly good shape and since no embalming was available at the time, the flesh was boiled off the bones and re-buried at Fort Presque Isle. He then transported his father's bones 300 miles East across Pennsylvania and reinterred them in St. David's Episcopal Church in Radnor, Pennsylvania.[5]

In 1829, Wayne published a memoir of his father and his military career in The Casket.[6]

In 1840, Wayne was elected as a member to the American Philosophical Society.[7]

Death and interment

Wayne died at the family estate in Easttown Township, Pennsylvania on October 25, 1852.[8] He was buried in the family plot[3] at St. David's Episcopal Church in Radnor, Pennsylvania.[9]

Bibliography

Citations

  1. ^ a b c d "Wayne, Isaac 1772-1852". www.bioguide.congress.gov. Biographical Director of the United States Congress. Retrieved July 13, 2022.
  2. ^ Eberlein, Harold Donaldson; Lippincott, Horace Mather (1912). The Colonial Homes of Philadelphia and its Neighborhood. Philadelphia: J.B. Lippincott Company. p. 181. Retrieved July 13, 2022.
  3. ^ a b c d "Isaac Wayne (1772-1852)". www.archives.dickinson.edu. Archives & Special Collections at Dickinson College. Retrieved July 14, 2022.
  4. ^ "Isaac Wayne Biography". www.legis.state.pa.us. Pennsylvania State Senate. Retrieved July 14, 2022.
  5. ^ Drury, Bob; Clavin, Tom (2018). Valley Forge. New York: Simon and Schuster. p. 340. ISBN 9781501152719. Retrieved July 13, 2022.
  6. ^ Leach, Josiah Granville (1903). History of the Penrose Family of Philadelphia. Philadelphia: Drexel Biddle Publisher. p. 59. Retrieved July 14, 2022.
  7. ^ "APS Member History". search.amphilsoc.org. Retrieved April 9, 2021.
  8. ^ "Anthony and Mary (Penrose) Wayne Family Bible". www.genealogycenter.info. ACPL Genealogy Center. Retrieved July 13, 2022.
  9. ^ The History of Old St. David's Church Radnor, Delaware County, Pennsylvania With a Complete Alphabetical List of Wardens and Vestrymen, and of the Interments in the Graveyard 1700-1906. Philadelphia: The John C. Winston Company. 1907. p. 194. Retrieved July 13, 2022.

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Party political offices Preceded byWilliam Tilghman Federalist nominee for governor of Pennsylvania 1814 Succeeded byJoseph Hiester U.S. House of Representatives Preceded byJames S. Mitchell Member of the U.S. House of Representatives from Pennsylvania's 4th congressional district 1823–1825 alongside: James Buchanan and Samuel Edwards Succeeded byJames BuchananSamuel EdwardsCharles Miner
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