Isaac Dashiell Jones

Isaac Dashiell Jones ( born November 1, 1806 Somerset County, Maryland; † July 5, 1893 in Baltimore, Maryland ) was an American politician. Between 1841 and 1843 he represented the state of Maryland in the U.S. House of Representatives.

Career

Isaac Jones attended the Washington Academy in Somerset County. After a subsequent study of law and qualifying as a lawyer, he started in Princess Anne to work in this profession. At the same time he embarked on a political career. Mid-1830s he joined the Whig Party was founded at that time. In the years 1832, 1835 and 1840, he sat in the House of Representatives from Maryland.

In the congressional elections of 1840 Jones was the first electoral district of Maryland in the U.S. House of Representatives in Washington DC chosen, where he became the successor of John Dennis on March 4, 1841. Until March 3, 1843, he was able to complete a term in Congress. This period was characterized by the tensions between President John Tyler and the Whigs. It was also at that time already been discussed about a possible annexation of the independent Republic of Texas since 1836 by Mexico.

After the dissolution of his party Jones was a member of the Democratic Party. In 1864 he was a delegate to the regional convention in Maryland. In the years 1864 and 1867 he was a delegate at meetings to revise the Constitution of Maryland. In 1866 he was again a deputy in the State Parliament; the following year he was attorney general of his state. In 1877 he was elected Judge of the Court of Arbitration in Baltimore. From 1867 he was up to his death also head of the deaf and dumb school of Maryland in Frederick. Since 1872, he headed also the Maryland School for the Colored Blind and Deaf in Baltimore. In this city, Isaac Jones on July 5, 1893 and passed away.

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