{{short description|American politician}} {{for|his grandfather, a colonial politician|Isaac Wayne (1699–1774)}} {{Use mdy dates|date=September 2022}} {{Infobox officeholder | name = Isaac Wayne | image = | office1 = Member of the<br />U.S. House of Representatives<br />from Pennsylvania | term_start1 = March 4, 1823 | term_end1 = March 3, 1825 | predecessor1 = | successor1 = | constituency1 = 4th district (1823-1825) | office2 = Pennsylvania State Senate | term2 = 1807 to 1810 | office3 = Pennsylvania House of Representatives | term3 = 1799 to 1801<br/>1806 | birth_date = {{birth date text|1772}} | birth_place = Easttown Township, Province of Pennsylvania, British America | death_date = {{Death date and age|1852|10|25|1772}} | death_place = Easttown Township, Pennsylvania, U.S. | resting_place = St. David's Episcopal Church, Radnor, Pennsylvania, U.S. | party = Federalist Party | relatives = Anthony Wayne <small>(father)</small><br/>Isaac Wayne <small>(grandfather)</small><br/>Samuel Van Leer <small>(uncle)</small> | education = Dickinson College | website = | branch = {{Dodseal|Board|25}} U.S. Army | rank = 20px Colonel | service_years = 1812-1823 | battles = War of 1812 }} '''Isaac Wayne''' (1772{{spnd}}October 25, 1852) was an American politician from Pennsylvania who served as a Federalist Party member of the U.S. House of Representatives for Pennsylvania's 4th congressional district from 1823 to 1825. He previously served as a member of the Pennsylvania House of Representatives from 1799 to 1801 and in 1806, and served as a member of the Pennsylvania State Senate from 1807 to 1810.
He was the son of the American Revolutionary War General Anthony Wayne, and grandson of Pennsylvania Provincial Assembly member Isaac Wayne.
==Biography== Wayne was born in 1772<ref name=bioguide/> at Waynesborough, the family estate in Easttown Township, Pennsylvania<ref name=EberleinLippincott>{{cite book |last1=Eberlein |first1=Harold Donaldson |last2=Lippincott |first2=Horace Mather |title=The Colonial Homes of Philadelphia and its Neighborhood |date=1912 |publisher=J.B. Lippincott Company |location=Philadelphia |page=181 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=RxsVAAAAYAAJ&pg=PA181 |access-date=July 13, 2022}}</ref> to American Revolutionary War General Anthony Wayne and Mary Penrose Wayne.<ref name=Dickinson>{{cite web |title=Isaac Wayne (1772-1852) |url=https://archives.dickinson.edu/people/isaac-wayne-1772-1852 |website=www.archives.dickinson.edu |publisher=Archives & Special Collections at Dickinson College |access-date=July 14, 2022}}</ref> He graduated from Dickinson College in Carlisle, Pennsylvania, in 1792,<ref name=Dickinson/> then studied law and was admitted to the Chester County, Pennsylvania, bar in 1795. He was a member of the Pennsylvania House of Representatives from 1799 to 1801 and 1806,<ref name=bioguide/> and served in the Pennsylvania State Senate from 1807 to 1810.<ref>{{cite web |title=Isaac Wayne Biography |url=https://www.legis.state.pa.us/cfdocs/legis/BiosHistory/MemBio.cfm?ID=5026&body=S |website=www.legis.state.pa.us |publisher=Pennsylvania State Senate |access-date=July 14, 2022}}</ref>
During the War of 1812, Wayne was captain of a troop of Pennsylvania Horse Cavalry, raised and equipped by himself, and was subsequently colonel of the Second Regiment, Pennsylvania Volunteer Infantry.<ref name=bioguide>{{cite web |title=Wayne, Isaac 1772-1852 |url=https://bioguide.congress.gov/search/bio/W000217 |website=www.bioguide.congress.gov |publisher=Biographical Director of the United States Congress |access-date=July 13, 2022}}</ref>
Wayne unsuccessfully ran as a Federalist candidate for governor in 1814, but was elected to the Eighteenth Congress.<ref name=bioguide/>
==Personal life== On August 25, 1802, Wayne married Elizabeth Smith and together they had five children.<ref name=Dickinson/>
In 1809, he traveled to Fort Presque Isle to disinter his father from his burial site there. The body was in surprisingly good shape and since no embalming was available at the time, the flesh was boiled off the bones and re-buried at Fort Presque Isle. He then transported his father's bones 300 miles East across Pennsylvania and reinterred them in St. David's Episcopal Church in Radnor, Pennsylvania.<ref>{{cite book |last1=Drury |first1=Bob |last2=Clavin |first2=Tom |title=Valley Forge |date=2018 |publisher=Simon and Schuster |location=New York |isbn=9781501152719 |page=340 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=I8RWDwAAQBAJ&pg=PA340 |access-date=July 13, 2022}}</ref>
In 1829, Wayne published a memoir of his father and his military career in ''The Casket''<!-- Apparently not ''The Casket'' which began in 1852. -->.<ref>{{cite book |last1=Leach |first1=Josiah Granville |title=History of the Penrose Family of Philadelphia |year=1903 |publisher=Drexel Biddle Publisher |location=Philadelphia |page=59 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=Mm8tAAAAYAAJ |access-date=July 14, 2022}}</ref>
In 1840, Wayne was elected as a member to the American Philosophical Society.<ref>{{Cite web|title=APS Member History|url=https://search.amphilsoc.org/memhist/search?year=1840;year-max=1840;smode=advanced;startDoc=1|access-date=April 9, 2021|website=search.amphilsoc.org}}</ref>
==Death and interment== Wayne died at the family estate in Easttown Township, Pennsylvania on October 25, 1852.<ref>{{cite web |title=Anthony and Mary (Penrose) Wayne Family Bible |url=https://genealogycenter.info/bibles/viewbiblepage_wayneanthony.php?p=10 |website=www.genealogycenter.info |publisher=ACPL Genealogy Center |access-date=July 13, 2022}}</ref> He was buried in the family plot<ref name=Dickinson/> at St. David's Episcopal Church in Radnor, Pennsylvania.<ref>{{cite book |title=The History of Old St. David's Church Radnor, Delaware County, Pennsylvania With a Complete Alphabetical List of Wardens and Vestrymen, and of the Interments in the Graveyard 1700-1906 |date=1907 |publisher=The John C. Winston Company |location=Philadelphia |page=194 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=KlQVAAAAYAAJ&pg=194 |access-date=July 13, 2022}}</ref>
==Bibliography== *''[https://www.google.com/books/edition/The%20Casket/qIQqAAAAYAAJ Biographical Memoir of Major General Anthony Wayne]'', The Casket No. 5, pages 190-203, Philadelphia, May 1829
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==Sources== *[http://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/wattson-weatherwax.html The Political Graveyard] *[https://web.archive.org/web/20060908101533/http://chronicles.dickinson.edu/encyclo/w/ed_wayneIs.html Encyclopedia Dickinsonia]
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