Isaiah L. Green

Isaiah Lewis Green ( born December 28, 1761 Barnstable, Massachusetts, † December 5, 1841 in Cambridge, Massachusetts ) was an American politician. Between 1805 and 1809, and again from 1811 to 1813, he represented the state of Massachusetts in the U.S. House of Representatives.

Career

After a good education Isaiah Green studied until 1781 at Harvard University. After a subsequent study of law and qualifying as a lawyer, he began to work in this profession. At the same time he proposed as a member of the Democratic-Republican Party launched a political career. In the congressional elections of 1804 he was in the eighth election district of Massachusetts in the U.S. House of Representatives in Washington DC chosen, where he became the successor of Lemuel Williams on March 4, 1805. After a re-election he was able to complete in Congress until March 3, 1809 two legislative sessions.

In the elections of 1810 Green was re-elected to Congress, where he could spend another term in office between 4 March 1811 and 3 March 1813. In this time of the beginning of the British -American War of 1812 fell between 1814 and 1837 he directed the customs authorities in Barnstable County.; thereafter he practiced as a lawyer again. He died on December 5, 1841 in Cambridge.