Isaac Anderson (congressman)
- Isaac Anderson (congressman)
Infobox Congressman
name= Isaac Anderson
width=
state= Pennsylvania
district= 11th
party= Democratic-Republican
term= 1803-1807
preceded= Joseph Hemphill
succeeded= Robert Jenkins, Matthias Richards, John Hiester
date of birth= birth date|1760|11|23|mf=y
place of birth= “Anderson Place” Schuylkill Township, Chester County, Pennsylvania, U.S.
date of death= death date and age|1838|10|27|1760|11|23|mf=y
place of death= “Anderson Place”
spouse= Mary Lane
religion= Methodist Episcopalian
current occupation=
Isaac Anderson (November 23, 1760 – October 27, 1838) was a member of the U.S. House of Representatives from Pennsylvania.
Isaac Anderson was born at “Anderson Place,” in then Charlestown Township, Pennsylvania now Schuylkill Township, Chester County, Pennsylvania, near Valley Forge, Pennsylvania, the son of Patrick Anderson (Pennsylvania). As a youth was the carrier of dispatches between the headquarters of the Revolutionary Army under General George Washington at Valley Forge and the Congress then in session at York, Pennsylvania. He served three terms of service in the Revolutionary War before attaining the age of eighteen and ultimately became an ensign in the Fifth Battalion of Chester County Militia. He was commissioned on May 24, 1779, as first lieutenant, Fifth Battalion, Sixth Company. He served as justice of the peace in Charlestown Township for several years, and was a member of the Pennsylvania House of Representatives in 1801.
Anderson was elected as a Republican to the Eighth and Ninth Congresses. He was not a candidate for renomination in 1806. He was engaged in agricultural pursuits and sawmilling. He died at “Anderson Place” in 1838. Interment in the family burying ground across the road from the family home near Valley Forge.
He is the maternal grandfather of Gov. Samuel W. Pennypacker.
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