Isaac Wayne

Isaac Wayne
Isaac Wayne
Member of the; U.S. House of Representatives; from Pennsylvania
	In office; March 4, 1823 – March 3, 1825
Constituency	4th district (1823-1825)
Personal details
Born	Isaac Wayne; 1772; Paoli, Province of Pennsylvania, British America
Died	October 25, 1852 (aged 79–80); Chester County, Pennsylvania, U.S.
Political party	Federalist Party
Relatives	Anthony Wayne (father); Isaac Wayne (grandfather); Samuel Van Leer (uncle);
Education	Dickinson College
Military service
Branch/service	U.S. Army
Years of service	1812-1823
Rank	Colonel
Battles/wars	War of 1812

Isaac Wayne (1772 – October 25, 1852) was a member of the U.S. House of Representatives from Pennsylvania, son of General "Mad" Anthony Wayne, and grandson of Isaac Wayne.

Biography

Wayne was born in 1772[1] at Waynesborough, the family estate in Paoli in the Province of Pennsylvania. He graduated from Dickinson College in Carlisle, Pennsylvania, 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, and served in the Pennsylvania State Senate in 1810. 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.

Wayne unsuccessfully ran as a Federalist candidate for Governor in 1814, but was elected to the Eighteenth Congress. He died in Chester County on October 25, 1852. He is buried in the family plot at St. David's (Radnor) Episcopal Church in Radnor, Pennsylvania.

Party political offices
Preceded by William Tilghman	Federalist nominee for Governor of Pennsylvania 1814	Succeeded by Joseph Hiester
U.S. House of Representatives
Preceded by James 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 by James Buchanan Samuel Edwards Charles Miner

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