Isaac Bloom
Isaac Bloom | |
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Member of theU.S. House of Representatives fromNew York's6thdistrict | |
In office March 4, 1803 – April 26, 1803 | |
Preceded by | John P. Van Ness |
Succeeded by | Daniel C. Verplanck |
Member of theNew York State Assembly | |
In office 1788-1792 | |
Personal details | |
Born | 1748 Jamaica,Province of New York,British America |
Died | April 26, 1803 Poughkeepsie,New York,U.S. | (aged 54–55)
Citizenship | ![]() |
Political party | Democratic-Republican Party |
Profession | merchant politician |
Military service | |
Allegiance | ![]() |
Rank | Captain |
Unit | Minutemen of the Charlotte Precinct |
Battles/wars | American Revolutionary War |
Isaac Bloom(1748[1]– April 26, 1803) was an American politician and aUnited States representativefromNew York.
Biography
[edit]Bloom was born inJamaicain theProvince of New York.
Career
[edit]Bloom later moved toClinton,Dutchess County, New York,and was a captain ofminutemenof the Charlotte precinct in Dutchess County in 1775. He was a merchant in 1784, and from 1788 to 1792 was a member of theNew York State Assembly.
A delegate to the New York state convention in 1801, Bloom was also a member of theNew York State Senatefrom 1800 to 1802. He was elected as aDemocratic-Republicanas aU. S. Representativefor the sixth district of New York to the8th United States Congress,but died before Congress met. The office was his from March 4, 1803, until his death on April 26, 1803.
Death
[edit]Bloom died inPoughkeepsie, New York.[2]Dutchess County, New York, on April 26, 1803 (age about 56 years). He isinterredat Pittsbury Presbyterian Churchyard, Washington Hollow, New York.
See also
[edit]References
[edit]- ^Dutchess County Doorways, and Other Examples of Period-work in Wood, 1730-1830: with accounts of houses, places and peopleby Helen Wilkinson Reynolds (1931; page 54)
- ^A Collection of Abstracts from Otsego County, New York, Newspaper Obituariesby Gertrude Audrey Barber (1993; page 8)
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