Isaiah D. Clawson

Isaiah D. Clawson

Infobox Congressman
name = Isaiah Dunn Clawson
width =
state = New Jersey
district = 1st
party = Opposition Party (1st term)
Republican (2nd term)
term = March 4, 1855 – March 3, 1859
preceded = Nathan T. Stratton
succeeded = John T. Nixon
date of birth = August 31, 1820
place of birth = Woodstown, New Jersey
date of death = October 9, 1879
place of death = Woodstown, New Jersey
spouse =
profession = Physician, Politician
religion =
footnotes =

Isaiah Dunn Clawson (August 31, 1820 - October 9, 1879) was an American Opposition Party / Republican Party politician who represented New Jersey's 1st congressional district in the United States House of Representatives from 1855 to 1859.

Born in Woodstown, New Jersey on March 30, 1822, Clawson attended Delaware College, (Newark, Delaware) and Lafayette College (Easton, Pennsylvania, and graduated from Princeton College in 1840 and from the University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine in 1843. He commenced the practice of medicine in Woodstown. He served as a member of the New Jersey General Assembly in 1854.

He was elected as an Opposition Party candidate to the Thirty-fourth Congress and reelected as a Republican to the Thirty-fifth Congress, serving in office from March 4, 1855 to March 3, 1859, but was not a candidate for renomination in 1858.

After leaving Congress, he resumed the practice of medicine in Woodstown, where he died on October 9, 1879. Interment in the Baptist Cemetery.

External links

*CongBio|C000477|Isaiah Dunn Clawson
* [http://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/clarken-claytee.html#R9M0ISQBC Isaiah Dunn Clawson] at The Political Graveyard
*Findagrave|7152862|Isaiah Dunn Clawson


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