Biography

03/01/1756 - 05/22/1830

Isaac Weaver, Jr. (Democratic-Republican18) Greene and Washington Counties 1808-1820 

Early Life: 

Isaac Weaver, Jr., born March 1, 1756, Providence Township, Chester County, Province of Pennsylvania, British Colonial America; son of Isaac and Sarah Dell Weaver; schoolmaster; Captain, Revolutionary War, Chester County; married Abigail Price, 1784 (d. 1813) married, Rachel Husband, children, Ann, Rachel, William, Joshua, Isaac, Harmon, Elizabeth, Price, Sarah, Nancy, David; elected, Democratic-Republican, Pennsylvania State House of Representatives, Greene County, 1797-1803; elected, Speaker, Pennsylvania State House of Representatives, 1799-1802; unsuccessful campaign, United States House of Representatives, 1801; State Treasurer, Commonwealth of Pennsylvania, 1803-1807; elected, Pennsylvania Senate, 1809-1812; elected, Pennsylvania State Senate, elected, Speaker, Pennsylvania State Senate, 1817-1820, unsuccessful reelection campaign, 1820; unsuccessful campaigns, United States Senate, 1801, 1802, 1812, 1819, 1824; unsuccessful nomination, Pennsylvania Governor, 1823; died, May 22, 1830, Waynesburg, Greene County, Pennsylvania; originally interment, family farm near Castle Run, Greene County, Pennsylvania, reinterment, Jefferson Cemetery, Jefferson, Greene County, Pennsylvania.  

Early Career: 

Captain, Chester County militia Continental Army, under Captain Jonathan Vernon during the Revolutionary War.  

Pennsylvania Politics:

Elected, Democratic-Republican, Pennsylvania State House of Representatives, Greene County, 1797-1803; elected, Speaker, Pennsylvania State House of Representatives, 1799-1802; Act 33 of 1802, which overhauled the offices of justices of the peace in Pennsylvania, calling for justices to live in the district they were appointed to and regulating where their offices could operate. Resigned, Speakership on March 1, 1803, Simon Snyder, elected, Speaker of the Pennsylvania House of Representatives.

Unsuccessful campaign, United States House of Representatives, 1801.

State Treasurer, Commonwealth of Pennsylvania, 1803-1807; at that time, the office was elected by the General Assembly.

Elected, Democratic-Republican, Pennsylvania State Senate, 18th district, Greene and Washington Counties, 1808-1820; Capping a distinguished legislative career, the Honorable Isaac Weaver Jr. cast the last vote of a particularly indifferent session, March 25, 1820, as the body’s single “nay” for adjournment, leaving members the impression that the old reformer’s negative vote for adjournment equated to a symbolic gesture, indicating his preference to continue a career of public service, unrivaled by many contemporaries. Unsuccessful reelection campaign, 1820.

Unsuccessful campaigns, United States Senate, 1801, 1802, 1812, 1819.

Unsuccessful nomination, Pennsylvania Governor, 1823. 

Unsuccessful nomination, United States Senate, 1824.

Pennsylvania State House of Representatives Speaker Biography:

Isaac Weaver Jr. - PA House of Representatives - PA House of Representatives (state.pa.us)

Cited:

Cox, Harold. "Senate Members W". Wilkes University Election Statistics Project. Wilkes University.

A New Nation Votes (tufts.edu)

Isaac Weaver (1756-1820) - Find a Grave Memorial