Isaac H. Bronson

Isaac Hopkins Bronson ( born October 16, 1802 in Rutland, New York, † August 13, 1855 in Palatka, Florida) was an American lawyer and politician. Between 1837 and 1839 he represented the State of New York in the U.S. House of Representatives; later he became a federal judge.

Career

Isaac Hopkins Bronson was born in the beginning of the 19th century in Rutland. He attended public schools. Then he studied law. His admission to the bar he received in 1822 and then began in Watertown in Jefferson County to practice. Politically, he was a member of the Democratic Party.

In the congressional elections of 1836 for the 25th Congress Bronson was in the 18th electoral district of New York in the U.S. House of Representatives in Washington DC chosen, where he became the successor of Daniel Wardwell on March 4, 1837. In 1838 he suffered in his re-election bid a defeat and retired after March 3, 1839, from the Congress of. As a Congressman he had presided over the Committee on Territories.

On April 18, 1838, he was appointed as a judge in the fifth judicial district of New York. He moved to St. Augustine in Florida and a few years later from there to Palatka in Putnam County. They appointed him on March 14, 1840 to a federal judgeship for the Eastern District of Florida. After recording of Florida as a state in the United States in 1845 he was unanimously elected Judge for the Eastern District. On August 8, 1846, he was appointed judge at the Federal District Court for the District of Florida. When the State was then divided later, he received the office of judge in the Northern District - a position which he held until his death in Palatka. He died on August 13, 1855, was buried in the Episcopal Church Cemetery.