| LC control no. | n 98073881 |
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| Descriptive conventions | rda |
| Personal name heading | Stephenson, Isaac, 1829-1918 |
| Variant(s) | Stephenson, Mr. (Isaac), 1829-1918 |
| Birth date | 1829-06-18 |
| Death date | 1918-03-15 |
| Place of death | Marinette (Wis.) |
| Affiliation | United States. Congress. House United States. Congress. Senate Wisconsin. Legislature. Assembly Republican Party (U.S. : 1854- ) |
| Profession or occupation | Legislators |
| Found in | NUCMC data from Library of Congress Manuscript Division for La Follette family papers, 1844-1988 (Isaac Stephenson; b. 1829; d. 1918; correspondent) Bio. dir. U.S. Cong., 1989 (Stephenson, Isaac; U.S. rep. from Wis., 1883-1889; U.S. senator from Wis., 1907-1915) Additional aids to navigation, Ashland, Wis., 1912: p. 1 (Mr. Stephenson, from the Committee on Commerce) Biographical directory of the United States Congress website, viewed December 18, 2023: (Stephenson, Isaac, (brother of Samuel Merritt Stephenson), a Representative and a Senator from Wisconsin; born in Yorkton near Fredericton, in York County, New Brunswick, Canada, June 18, 1829; attended the common schools; settled in Marinette, Wis., in 1858 and engaged in the lumber business; held various local offices; member, Wisconsin State assembly 1866, 1868; founder and president of the Stephenson Banking Co. 1873; elected as a Republican to the Forty-eighth, Forty-ninth, and Fiftieth Congresses (March 4, 1883-March 3, 1889); was not a candidate for renomination in 1888; resumed the lumber business in Marinette, Wis.; elected in 1907 as a Republican to the United States Senate to fill the vacancy caused by the resignation of John C. Spooner; reelected in 1909 and served from May 17, 1907, to March 3, 1915; chairman, Committee on Expenditures in the Department of Agriculture (Sixty-first Congress), Committee on Enrolled Bills (Sixty-second Congress), Committee to Investigate Trespassers Upon Indian Lands (Sixty-third Congress); died in Marinette, Wis., on March 15, 1918; interment in Forest Home Cemetery.) |
| Associated language | eng |
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