Isaac D. Young
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Isaac Daniel Young was a U.S. Representative
United States House of Representatives
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 from Kansas
Kansas
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Born near Pleasantville, Iowa
Pleasantville, Iowa
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, Young attended high school and Oskaloosa College in Iowa.
Began teaching at the age of fifteen and continued in that profession for ten years.
He moved to Mitchell County, Kansas
Mitchell County, Kansas
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, in 1874 and settled on a homestead in Turkey Creek Township.
He engaged in agricultural pursuits for eleven years.
Superintendent of public instruction of Mitchell County, Kansas
Mitchell County, Kansas
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 from 1876 to 1880.
He served as member of the State senate 1884-1888.
He moved to Beloit, Kansas
Beloit, Kansas
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, in 1885.
He studied law.
He was admitted to the bar
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 in 1889 and commenced practice in Beloit, Kansas
Beloit, Kansas
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.
He was again a member of the State senate 1904-1908.

Young was elected as a Republican
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 to the Sixty-second
62nd United States Congress
- House of Representatives :* Democratic : 230 * Republican : 162* Socialist : 1* Independent : 1TOTAL members: 394-Senate:* President: James S...

 Congress (March 4, 1911-March 3, 1913).
He was an unsuccessful for reelection in 1912.
He resumed the practice of law in Beloit, Kansas
Beloit, Kansas
Beloit is a city in and the county seat of Mitchell County, Kansas, United States. As of the 2010 census, the city population was 3,835.- History :...

, until his death December 10, 1927.
He was interred in Elmwood Cemetery.
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