Isaac H. Bronson

Isaac Hopkins Bronson (October 16, 1802 – August 13, 1855) was a United States federal judge and U.S. Representative from New York. Bronson was born either in Waterbury, Connecticut or Rutland, New York. Bronson attended the public schools and read law in 1822, after which he was in private practice in Watertown, New York from 1822 to 1837. Bronson was elected as a Democrat to the Twenty-fifth Congress (March 4, 1837 – March 3, 1839), where he served as chairman of the Committee on Territories in the Twenty-fifth Congress. He was an unsuccessful candidate for reelection in 1838 to the Twenty-sixth Congress. Bronson was appointed judge of the fifth judicial district of New York on April 18, 1838, and served from 1839 to 1840. He moved to...