Isaac Bloom Explained

Isaac Bloom
State1:New York
District1:6th
Term Start1:March 4, 1803
Term End1:April 26, 1803
Preceded1:John P. Van Ness
Succeeded1:Daniel C. Verplanck
Office2:Member of the New York State Assembly
Term2:1788-1792
Birth Place:Jamaica, Province of New York, British America
Death Place:Poughkeepsie, New York, U.S.
Profession:merchantpolitician
Party:Democratic-Republican Party
Allegiance: United States of America
Rank:Captain
Unit:Minutemen of the Charlotte Precinct
Battles:American Revolutionary War

Isaac Bloom (1748[1] – April 26, 1803) was an American politician and a United States representative from New York.

Biography

Bloom was born in Jamaica in the Province of New York.

Career

Bloom later moved to Clinton, Dutchess County, New York, and was a captain of minutemen of the Charlotte precinct in Dutchess County in 1775. He was a merchant in 1784, and from 1788 to 1792 was a member of the New York State Assembly.

A delegate to the New York state convention in 1801, Bloom was also a member of the New York State Senate from 1800 to 1802. He was elected as a Democratic-Republican as a U. S. Representative for the sixth district of New York to the 8th United States Congress, but died before Congress met. The office was his from March 4, 1803, until his death on April 26, 1803.

Death

Bloom died in Poughkeepsie, New York.[2] Dutchess County, New York, on April 26, 1803 (age about 56 years). He is interred at Pittsbury Presbyterian Churchyard, Washington Hollow, New York.

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Notes and References

  1. https://books.google.com/books?id=ehtKtda6m00C&q=isaac+bloom+1748+1803 Dutchess County Doorways, and Other Examples of Period-work in Wood, 1730-1830: with accounts of houses, places and people
  2. https://books.google.com/books?id=CaS0GP2dJBMC&pg=PA8 A Collection of Abstracts from Otsego County, New York, Newspaper Obituaries