Isaac E. Holmes

Isaac Edward Holmes ( born April 6, 1796 in Charleston, South Carolina, † February 24, 1867 ) was an American politician. Between 1839 and 1851 he represented the state of South Carolina in the U.S. House of Representatives.

Career

Isaac Holmes attended the public schools of his home. He also enjoyed time as a private education. Then he studied until 1815 at Yale College. After a subsequent study of law and its made ​​in 1818 admitted to the bar he began in Charleston to work in his new profession. At the same time he began a political career.

Holmes was first city council in Charleston and then belonged from 1826 to 1829 and again from 1832 to 1833 the House of Representatives from South Carolina. Politically, he was a member of the Democratic Party. In 1838 he was as their candidate in the fourth constituency of South Carolina in the U.S. House of Representatives in Washington DC chosen, where he became the successor of John K. Griffin on March 4, 1839. Two years later he was selected in the fifth district as the successor of Francis Wilkinson Pickens. Since 1843 he represented again as a successor of Pickens, the Sixth Circuit. Overall, Holmes sat on six legislative periods 1839-1851 for South Carolina in Congress. In this time of the Mexican -American War of 1848 and the resulting territorial gains of the United States fell. His last years in Congress were determined from the debate on the question of slavery and the extension or restriction of this institution. Between 1843 and 1845 Holmes was Chairman of the Trade Committee. Between 1847 and 1849 he headed the Marine Committee.

After the end of his time in the U.S. House of Representatives Isaac Holmes moved to San Francisco in California, where he worked as a lawyer from 1851 to 1854. In 1857 he returned briefly to Charleston. From 1857 to 1861 Holmes lived again in San Francisco. In 1861 he returned finally home to Charleston. Meanwhile, the state of South Carolina had dissolved from the Union and joined the Confederate States. In 1861, before the outbreak of the Civil War, was Holmes negotiator for the State Government of South Carolinia, who was with the federal government on the open questions that arose from the separation of the state, negotiate. Isaac Holmes died on 24 February 1867 in his hometown of Charleston.

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