Preceded by John P. Van Ness Name Isaac Bloom Profession merchant
politician | Citizenship United States Succeeded by Daniel C. Verplanck | |
Born 1748
Jamaica, Queens County, New York ( 1748 ) Died April 26, 1803 (1803-04-27) (aged 55)
Poughkeepsie, New York Political party Democratic-Republican Party | ||
Isaac Bloom (1748 – April 26, 1803) was an American politician and a United States Representative from New York.
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Biography
Bloom was born in Jamaica, Queens County, 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. Dutchess County, New York, on April 26, 1803 (age about 56 years). He is interred at Pittsbury Presbyterian Churchyard, Washington Hollow, New York.