Isaac Griffin

Isaac Griffin ( born February 27, 1756 Kent County, Delaware, † October 12, 1827 in Fayette County, Pennsylvania ) was an American politician. Between 1813 and 1817 he represented the State of Pennsylvania in the U.S. House of Representatives.

Career

Isaac Griffin attended the public schools in Delaware. He later moved into the Fayette County in Pennsylvania, where he worked in agriculture. During the Revolutionary War he was a captain in the American armed forces. In 1794 he was justice of the peace in his home. Politically, he joined, founded by Thomas Jefferson Democratic- Republican Party. Between 1807 and 1811 he was a member of the House of Representatives from Pennsylvania.

In the congressional elections of 1812, the incumbent in another electoral district Congressman John Smilie in the then newly created 13th District of Pennsylvania in the U.S. House of Representatives in Washington DC was selected. But he died before the start of the new legislature. Then Griffin was elected as his successor in Congress, where he took up his new mandate on 24 May 1813. After a re-election, he could remain there until March 3, 1817. This period was initially still affected by the events of the British - American War.

In 1816, Isaac Griffin was not re-elected. Then he retired from politics. He died on 12 October 1827 the consequences of a fall from a cart on his estate in Fayette County. His Ureinkel Eugene McLanahan Wilson (1833-1890) was a congressman for Minnesota, his great-grandson Charles H. Griffin (1926-1989) for the State of Mississippi.