Isaac Newton Evans Explained

Issac N. Evans
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State:Pennsylvania
District:7th
Term Start:March 4, 1883
Term End:March 3, 1887
Preceded:William Godshalk
Succeeded:Robert Morris Yardley
Term Start2:March 4, 1877
Term End2:March 3, 1879
Preceded2:Alan Wood, Jr.
Succeeded2:William Godshalk
Birth Date:29 July 1827
Birth Place:West Chester, Pennsylvania
Death Place:Hatboro, Pennsylvania
Party:Republican
Alma Mater:Jefferson Medical College

Isaac Newton Evans (July 29, 1827 – December 3, 1901) was a Republican member of the U.S. House of Representatives from Pennsylvania.

Biography

Isaac Newton Evans was born near present-day West Chester, Pennsylvania. He attended the common schools and was graduated from the medical department of Bowdoin College in Brunswick, Maine, in 1851 and from Jefferson Medical College in Philadelphia in 1852. He began the practice of medicine in Johnsville, Pennsylvania in 1852. He moved to Hatboro, Pennsylvania in 1856 and continued the practice of medicine. He served as president of the Hatboro National Bank.

Evans was elected as a Republican to the Forty-fifth Congress. He was not a candidate for renomination. He was again elected to the Forty-eighth and Forty-ninth Congresses.

He declined to be a candidate for renomination and returned to the practice of medicine, and was also engaged in the real estate business and banking. He died in Hatboro in 1901. He is buried in Friends Cemetery in Horsham, Pennsylvania.

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