Isaac Darlington

Isaac Darlington (* December 13, 1781 in West Chester, Pennsylvania, † April 27, 1839 ) was an American politician. Between 1817 and 1819 he represented the State of Pennsylvania in the U.S. House of Representatives.

Career

Isaac Darlington was a cousin of Congressman Edward Darlington (1795-1884) and William Darlington ( 1782-1863 ). He attended the Friends School in Birmingham. Then he taught himself as a teacher in the district schools of his home. After studying law and his 1801 was admitted to the bar he began in West Chester to work in this profession. Politically, he was a member of the late 1790s, founded by Alexander Hamilton Federalist Party. From 1807 to 1809 he sat as an MP in the House of Representatives from Pennsylvania; in the years 1814 and 1815 he was during the final phase of the British -American War lieutenant in a volunteer regiment from Pennsylvania.

In the congressional elections of 1816 Darlington was in the second electoral district of Pennsylvania in the U.S. House of Representatives in Washington DC chosen, where he succeeded his cousin William on March 4, 1817. Since he resigned in 1818 to further candidacy, he was able to complete only one term in Congress until March 3, 1819. After the mandate again fell to William Darlington.

In 1820, Isaac Darlington was appointed deputy prosecutor in Chester County. Since 1821 until his death he was there and in the Delaware County served as Presiding Judge of the respective district courts. He died on 27 April 1839 in his hometown of West Chester.