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Isaac G. Farlee

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Isaac Gray Farlee
Member of the U.S. House of Representatives
from New Jersey's 3rd district
In office
March 4, 1843 – March 3, 1845
Preceded byJohn Bancker Aycrigg
William Halstead
John Patterson Bryan Maxwell
Joseph Fitz Randolph
Charles C. Stratton
Thomas J. Yorke (Elected statewide on a Whig Party general ticket)
Succeeded byJames G. Hampton (W)
Personal details
Political partyDemocratic
ProfessionPolitician

Isaac Gray Farlee (May 18, 1787 – January 12, 1855) was a U.S. Representative from New Jersey.

Biography

Born at Whitehouse, New Jersey, Farlee attended the public schools. He engaged in mercantile pursuits in Flemington. He served as member of the New Jersey General Assembly in 1819, 1821, 1828, and 1830. He served as clerk of Hunterdon County from 1830 to 1840, and was a Brigadier general of the State militia.

Farlee was elected as a Democrat to the Twenty-eighth Congress, serving in office from March 4, 1843 to March 3, 1845, but was an unsuccessful candidate for reelection in 1844 to the Twenty-ninth Congress.

He served as member of the New Jersey Senate from 1847 to 1849, and served as judge of the Court of Common Pleas from 1852 to 1855. He died in Flemington, New Jersey, January 12, 1855, and was interred there in Presbyterian Cemetery.

  • United States Congress. "Isaac G. Farlee (id: F000017)". Biographical Directory of the United States Congress.
  • Isaac Gray Farlee at The Political Graveyard
  • Isaac Gray Farlee at Find a Grave

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