Isaac Clements

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(March 31, 1837 — May 31, 1909) Isaac Clements was a teacher, lawyer, and politician. Clements was born in Brookville, Indiana in 1837 and moved to Illinois after studying law. He graduated from Indiana Asbury College (now De Pauw University) and taught school in Illinois after studying law in Greencastle. During the Civil War, he enlisted in the Union Army and attained the rank of second lieutenant. After the war, he was appointed register in bankruptcy in 1867, and served in that capacity until being elected as a Republican to the United States House of Representatives in 1872. Clements served in the House from March 4, 1873 to March 3, 1875, after which he served as a United States penitentiary commissioner, pension agent, and superintendent of a soldiers’ orphans’ home. [Source: “Biographical Directory of the United States Congress, 1774 - Present,” available at https://bioguide.congress.gov/search/bio/C000507]

Member of Illinois Delegation—The Civil Rights Act of 1875.

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