Isaac Darlington
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Isaac Darlington (December 13, 1781 - April 27, 1839) was a member of the U.S. House of Representatives from Pennsylvania.
Isaac Darlington (cousin of Edward Darlington and William Darlington, second cousin of Smedley Darlington) was born near West Chester, Pennsylvania. He attended Friends School at Birmingham, Pennsylvania. He studied law, was admitted to the bar in 1801 and commenced practice in West Chester. He was a member of the Pennsylvania House of Representatives from 1807 to 1809. He served as a lieutenant and adjutant of the Second Regiment, Pennsylvania Volunteers, in 1814 and 1815.
Darlington was elected as a Federalist to the Fifteenth Congress. He declined to be a candidate for renomination in 1818 to the Sixteenth Congress. He was appointed deputy attorney general for Chester County, Pennsylvania in 1820 and became presiding judge of the judicial district comprising the counties of Chester and Delaware from May 1821 until the time of his death in West Chester in 1839. Interment in Friends Burying Ground in Birmingham, Pennsylvania.
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| Preceded by William Darlington John Hahn |
Member of the U.S. House of Representatives from Pennsylvania's 2nd congressional district 1817-1819 alongside: Roger Davis |
Succeeded by William Darlington Samuel Gross |
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