Isaac Dutton Barnard

Jacksonian Senator of Pennsylvania

Congresses Served

Senate Terms

January 1, 1791 (43 years old)

Birthday

January 1, 1834

Death

Served as a United States Senator for Pennsylvania from 1827 to 1831.
Served as a Major in the U.S. Army during the War of 1812.
Served as a Pennsylvania State Senator for the 4th district from 1820 until 1826.
Worked as a scholar at several public schools before his military and political careers.
Received a commission as Captain at age 20 and was promoted to Major for meritorious service during the War of 1812.
Served as Major General of the Pennsylvania State Militia.
Resumed legal studies after the War of 1812, was admitted to the bar in 1816, and began practicing law in West Chester.
Held the position of deputy attorney general for Chester County from 1817 to 1821.
Served as an Assistant Burgess in the government of the borough of West Chester in 1821, 1824, and 1825.
Declined the judgeship of Chester County.
Instrumental in securing funds for a memorial to the Battle of Paoli.
Was Secretary of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania in 1826.
Elected to the U.S. Senate as a Jacksonian; chaired the Committee on Militia during the 21st and 22nd Congresses.
Resigned from the Senate in 1831 due to ill health.
Married Harriet Darlington in 1820, who died in childbirth in 1823; he never remarried.
Died in 1834 in West Chester and was originally interred at the Friends Burying Ground before being re-interred in Oaklands Cemetery.
A street in West Chester was named after him, and a monument was erected in his memory in Oaklands Cemetery in 1854.