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Isaac D. Barnard
United States Senator
from Pennsylvania
In office
March 4, 1827 – December 6, 1831
Preceded byWilliam Findlay
Succeeded byGeorge M. Dallas
Member of the Pennsylvania Senate
In office
1820-1826
Personal details
Born
Isaac Dutton Barnard

(1791-07-18)July 18, 1791
Aston Township, Pennsylvania
DiedFebruary 28, 1834(1834-02-28) (aged 42)
West Chester, Pennsylvania
Resting placeOakland's Cemetery near West Chester
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionLawyer
CommitteesCommittee on Militia
Military service
AllegianceUnited States
Branch/serviceUnited States Army
Militia
RankMajor-General
UnitFourteenth Regiment, United States Infantry
Battles/warsWar of 1812

Isaac Dutton Barnard (July 18, 1791 – February 28, 1834) was an American lawyer and politician who served as a United States Senator from Pennsylvania. He also served as a Pennsylvania State Senator from 1820 until 1826.[1]

Biography

He moved to a farm near Chester with his parents, and was a scholar at several public schools.[1] He later resided in Philadelphia until 1811, when he moved back to Chester.[1] While he was studying law, Barnard became a member of the Fourteenth Regiment, United States Infantry, and served in the War of 1812.[1] He fought at the Battle of Plattsburgh, and the Battle of Lyon Creek, and promoted from captain to major for meritorious service.[2] After the war ended he resumed his legal studies,[1] and was admitted to the bar on May 1, 1816.[2] He began practicing law in West Chester.[1] Barnard was the deputy attorney general for Chester County from 1817 to 1821,[1] and an Assistant Burgess in the government of the borough of West Chester in 1821, 1824, and 1825.[3] Barnard was also a major-general of militia, and declined the judgeship of Chester County.[2]

Beginning in 1820, and ending in 1826, he was a member of the Pennsylvania State Senate, and the year he left the State Senate, he was the Secretary of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania.[1] He was elected to the United States Senate as a Jacksonian, and began his first term on March 4, 1827.[1] During the 21st and 22nd United States Congresses, he was the chairman of the Committee on Militia.[1] In 1829, Barnard was closely defeated in his attempt to gain the nomination for Governor of Pennsylvania.[2] He undertook part of a second Senate term, but resigned from the Senate on December 6, 1831,[1] due to ill health.[2] He was replaced by a future Vice President of the United States, George M. Dallas.[4] Just before he resigned, the New York papers were reportedly demanding that Barnard be given a place in the United States Cabinet.[2] Barnard died on February 28, 1834, in West Chester, and was interred in Oakland's Cemetery nearby.[1] William Everhart, a wealthy merchant, named a street after Barnard, with whom he was a friend, which had been created after Everhart divided up a farm into lots sometime after the summer of 1830.[5]

Footnotes

  1. ^ a b c d e f g h i j k l "Barnard, Isaac Dutton, (1791 - 1834)". {{cite journal}}: Cite journal requires |journal= (help)
  2. ^ a b c d e f Biographical and Portrait Cyclopedia of Chester County, Pennsylvania, comprising a historical sketch of the county. p. 204.
  3. ^ "West Chester Borough Officials: 1799-present". {{cite journal}}: Cite journal requires |journal= (help)
  4. ^ "George Mifflin Dallas, 11th Vice President (1845-1849)". {{cite journal}}: Cite journal requires |journal= (help)
  5. ^ "West Chester". {{cite journal}}: Cite journal requires |journal= (help)

Sources

U.S. Senate
Preceded by U.S. senator (Class 1) from Pennsylvania
1827–1831
Served alongside: William Marks, William Wilkins 		Succeeded by

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