{{short description|American politician}} {{Infobox officeholder |name=Benjamin Isaacs
|office=Member of the Connecticut Senate<br/> from the 12th District |term_start=1836 |term_end=1837<ref name="roll">[https://books.google.com/books?id=ul0EAAAAYAAJ Roll of state officers and members of General Assembly of Connecticut, from 1776 to 1881]</ref> |predecessor=Charles Hawley |successor=Charles Hawley
|office2=Member of the<br/>Connecticut House of Representatives from Norwalk |term_start2=May 1813 |term_end2=May 1814<ref name="roll"/> |predecessor2=Jabez Gregory,<br/>Thomas Reed |successor2=Moses W. Reed,<br/>John Eversley |alongside2=Thomas Reed,<br/>Moses W. Reed
|term_start3=May 1815 |term_end3=May 1817<ref name="roll"/> |predecessor3=Jacob Osborne,<br/>Lewis Mallory |successor3=Samuel B. Warren,<br/>William J. Street |alongside3=Thaddeus Betts,<br/>John Eversley,<br/>Samuel B. Warren
|term_start4=October 1818 |term_end4=1821<ref name="roll"/> |predecessor4=William J. Street,<br/>Dan Taylor |successor4=Moses Gregory,<br/>James Quintard, Jr. |alongside4=Moses Gregory,<br/>Andrew Hanford,<br/>Dan Taylor
|term_start5=1822 |term_end5=1823<ref name="roll"/> |predecessor5=Moses Gregory,<br/>James Quintard, Jr. |successor5=Moses Gregory,<br/>Noah Wilcox |alongside5=Noah Wilcox
|term_start6=1824 |term_end6=1826<ref name="roll"/> |predecessor6=Moses Gregory,<br/>Noah Wilcox |successor6=Thomas Reed,<br/>David Roberts |alongside6=Thomas Reed,<br/>Moses Gregory
|term_start7=1827 |term_end7=1829<ref name="roll"/> |predecessor7=Thomas Reed,<br/>David Roberts |successor7=Charles Wiley Taylor,<br/>Clark Bissell |alongside7=Samuel B. Warren,<br/>Moses Gregory
|term_start8=1834 |term_end8=1835<ref name="roll"/> |predecessor8=Thomas B. Butler,<br/>John D. Lounsbury |successor8=Noah Wilcox,<br/>Charles W. Taylor |alongside8=Samuel Comstock
|birth_date={{birth date|1778|07|17}}<ref name="fs-02">"Connecticut, Births and Christenings, 1649-1906," index, FamilySearch ([https://familysearch.org/pal:/MM9.1.1/F74S-4DW https://familysearch.org/pal:/MM9.1.1/F74S-4DW] : accessed 26 May 2013), Benjamin Isaacs, 17 Jul 1778.</ref><ref name="hist">[https://books.google.com/books?id=WhYfAAAAMAAJ&dq=%22Benjamin+Isaacs%22+norwalk&pg=PA181 The History of the Descendants of John Dwight, of Dedham, Mass, Volume 1]</ref> |birth_place=Norwalk, Connecticut<ref name="fs-02"/> |death_date={{death date and age|1846|07|25|1778|07|17}}<ref name="fs-01">"Connecticut, Deaths and Burials, 1772-1934," index, FamilySearch ([https://familysearch.org/pal:/MM9.1.1/F7D7-X6P https://familysearch.org/pal:/MM9.1.1/F7D7-X6P] : accessed 26 May 2013), Benjamin Isaacs, 25 Jul 1846; citing reference pg 423, FHL microfilm 3147.</ref> |death_place=Norwalk, Connecticut<ref name="fs-01"/> |resting_place= |alma_mater= |occupation=merchant |party= |spouse=Fanny Bryan (m. November 18, 1798)<ref name="hist"/> |children=Richard Isaacs, Elizabeth Isaacs Lynes, Ann T. Isaacs St. John, Isaac S. Isaacs, Sophia Isaacs Lockwood, William B. Isaacs<ref name="hist"/> }}
'''Benjamin Isaacs''' (July 17, 1778 – July 25, 1846) was a member of the Connecticut Senate representing the 12th District from 1836 to 1837, and a member of the Connecticut House of Representatives in the sessions of May and October 1813, May and October 1815, May and October 1816, May 1817, October 1818, and the years 1819, 1820, 1822, 1824, 1825, 1827, 1828, and 1834.
He was the son of Isaac Scudder Isaacs and Susanna St. John Isaacs.<ref name="hist"/>
He was the parish clerk of St. Paul's on the Green from 1815 to 1846.<ref name="add">[https://books.google.com/books?id=cjVKAAAAMAAJ&dq=%22Benjamin+Isaacs%22+norwalk&pg=PA40 Charles Melbourne Selleck, ''Address'']</ref>
He served as town clerk of Norwalk from 1814 to 1844.<ref name="add"/><ref>[https://books.google.com/books?id=YCgBAAAAYAAJ&dq=%22William+J.+Street%22+norwalk&pg=PA80 An Historical Discourse in Commemoration of the Two-hundredth Anniversary of Norwalk]</ref>
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{{s-start}} {{succession box | title=Member of the Connecticut House of Representatives from Norwalk | with=Thomas Reed, Moses W. Reed | years=May 1813 – May 1814 | before=Jabez Gregory | before2=Thomas Reed | after=Moses W. Reed | after2=John Eversley }} {{succession box | title=Member of the Connecticut House of Representatives from Norwalk | with=Thaddeus Betts, John Eversley, Samuel B. Warren | years=May 1815 – May 1817 | before=Jacob Osborne | before2=Lewis Mallory | after=Samuel B. Warren | after2=William J. Street }} {{succession box | title=Member of the Connecticut House of Representatives from Norwalk | with=Moses Gregory, Andrew Hanford, Dan Taylor | years=October 1818 – 1821 | before=William J. Street | before2=Dan Taylor | after=Moses Gregory | after2=James Quintard, Jr. }} {{succession box | title=Member of the Connecticut House of Representatives from Norwalk | with=Noah Wilcox | years=1822–1823 | before=Moses Gregory | before2=James Quintard, Jr. | after=Moses Gregory | after2=Noah Wilcox }} {{succession box | title=Member of the Connecticut House of Representatives from Norwalk | with=Thomas Reed, Moses Gregory | years=1824–1826 | before=Moses Gregory | before2=Noah Wilcox | after=Thomas Reed | after2=David Roberts }} {{succession box | title=Member of the Connecticut House of Representatives from Norwalk | with=Samuel B. Warren, Moses Gregory | years=1827–1829 | before=Thomas Reed | before2=David Roberts | after=Charles W. Taylor | after2=Clark Bissell }} {{succession box | title=Member of the Connecticut House of Representatives from Norwalk | with=Samuel Comstock | years=1834–1835 | before=Thomas B. Butler | before2=John D. Lounsbury | after=Noah Wilcox | after2=Charles W. Taylor }} {{succession box|title=Member of the<br/>Connecticut Senate<br/> from the 12th District|before=Charles Hawley|after=Charles Hawley|years=1836–1837}} {{s-end}}
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