Isaac Southard was an Anti-Jacksonian member of the United States House of Representatives

United States House of Representatives

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 from 1831 to 1833, representing New Jersey

New Jersey

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 at-large

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Early life

A son of Henry Southard

Henry Southard

Henry Southard was a United States Representative from the state of New Jersey.Southard was born in Hempstead, Long Island, New York. He moved with his parents to Basking Ridge, New Jersey in 1755, where he attended the common schools and worked on a farm. Later, Southard served as a private and...

, Isaac Southard was born in the city of Basking Ridge in Somerset County

Somerset County, New Jersey

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, New Jersey. He had a brother, Samuel Lewis Southard. Southard was educated at the classical school of his city, and engaged in the general merchandise business until 1814.

Public service

• Deputy collector of internal revenue for Somerset County
• Major of the Second Battalion, Second Regiment, Somerset Brigade (appointed February 17, 1815)
• Director in the State Bank at Morristown, New Jersey
• Lay judge of Court of Common Pleas of Somerset (appointed November 13, 1820)
• Justice of the peace
  Justice of the Peace
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   (commissioned November 16, 1820)
• County clerk of Somerset County (1820–1830)
• U.S. Representative (1831–1833)
• Master and examiner in chancery
  Court of equity
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   (appointed in 1833 by Gov. Elias P. Seeley
  Elias P. Seeley
  Elias Petty Seeley was an American Whig Party politician who served as the 11th Governor of New Jersey in 1833. Seeley was named to serve as governor after Samuel L. Southard stepped down from office to take a seat in the United States Senate...
  
  
• Colonel in the New Jersey State Militia
• State treasurer of New Jersey (1837–1843)

Congress

Southard was elected as an Anti-Jacksonian to the Twenty-second United States Congress, and began his term on March 4, 1831. He did not succeed in his bid for reelection, and his term ended on March 3, 1833.

Retirement

After his time as State Treasurer, Southard lived in Trenton, NJ for several years before moving to Somerville, NJ, where he lived until his death on September 18, 1850. He was interred in the Old Cemetery

Old Cemetery

Old Cemetery is a historic cemetery on Somerville Avenue and School Street in Somerville, Massachusetts.The cemetery was founded in 1804 and added to the National Historic Register in 1989....

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