Isaiah D. Clawson
Isaiah Dunn Clawson | |
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Member of the U.S. House of Representatives from New Jersey's 1st district | |
In office March 4, 1855 – March 3, 1859 | |
Preceded by | Nathan T. Stratton |
Succeeded by | John T. Nixon |
Personal details | |
Born | March 30, 1822 Woodstown, New Jersey |
Died | October 9, 1879 Woodstown, New Jersey | (aged 57)
Political party | Opposition Party (1st term) Republican (2nd term) |
Profession | Physician, Politician |
Isaiah Dunn Clawson (March 30, 1822 – October 9, 1879) was an American Opposition Party / Republican Party politician who represented New Jersey's 1st congressional district in the United States House of Representatives from 1855 to 1859.
Born in Woodstown, New Jersey on March 30, 1822, Clawson attended Delaware College, (Newark, Delaware) and Lafayette College (Easton, Pennsylvania, and graduated from Princeton College in 1840 and from the University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine in 1843. He commenced the practice of medicine in Woodstown. He served as a member of the New Jersey General Assembly in 1854.
He was elected as an Opposition Party candidate to the Thirty-fourth Congress and reelected as a Republican to the Thirty-fifth Congress, serving in office from March 4, 1855 to March 3, 1859, but was not a candidate for renomination in 1858.
After leaving Congress, he resumed the practice of medicine in Woodstown, where he died on October 9, 1879. Interment in the Baptist Cemetery.
External links[]
- United States Congress. "Isaiah Dunn Clawson (id: C000477)". Biographical Directory of the United States Congress.
- Isaiah Dunn Clawson at The Political Graveyard
- Isaiah Dunn Clawson at Find a Grave
- 1822 births
- 1879 deaths
- People from Woodstown, New Jersey
- Opposition Party members of the United States House of Representatives from New Jersey
- New Jersey Oppositionists
- New Jersey Republicans
- Republican Party members of the United States House of Representatives
- Members of the United States House of Representatives from New York (state)
- Members of the New Jersey General Assembly
- Lafayette College alumni
- Princeton University alumni
- Perelman School of Medicine at the University of Pennsylvania alumni
- 19th-century American politicians
- New Jersey politician stubs