Isaac Leffler
| Isaac Leffler | |
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| Member of the U.S. House of Representatives from Virginia's 18th district |
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In office March 4, 1827 – March 3, 1829 |
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| Preceded by | Joseph Johnson |
| Succeeded by | Philip Doddridge |
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| Born |
November 7, 1788 Washington County, Pennsylvania, U.S. |
| Died | March 8, 1866 (aged 77) Chariton, Iowa, U.S. |
| Resting place | Aspen Grove Cemetery, Burlington, Iowa, U.S. |
| Political party | Adams Party |
| Relatives | Shepherd Leffler (brother) |
Isaac Leffler (November 7, 1788 – March 8, 1866), sometimes spelled Lefler or Loeffler, was an American lawyer who represented Virginia's 18th congressional district in the United States House of Representatives for one term in the 1820s; and served in the legislatures of the Commonwealth of Virginia and of the Wisconsin and Iowa Territories. He was the older brother of Iowa U.S. Representative Shepherd Leffler, who served in Congress twenty years later.
Born on his grandfather's plantation, "Sylvia's Plain," in Washington County, Pennsylvania, near Wheeling, Virginia (now West Virginia), Leffler attended the public schools and was graduated from Jefferson College, (now Washington & Jefferson College), in Canonsburg, Pennsylvania. After studying law, he was admitted to the bar and commenced practice in Wheeling. He served as member of the Virginia House of Delegates from 1817 to 1819, 1823 to 1827, 1832, and 1833. He served as member of the Virginia Board of Public Works in 1827.
In 1826, Leffler was elected as an Adams Party candidate to the Twentieth Congress, defeating incumbent Jacksonian Joseph Johnson. When running for re-election in 1828, he was defeated (along with President John Quincy Adams). Although Adams was defeated by Andrew Jackson, Leffler was defeated by Anti-Jacksonian Party candidate Philip Doddridge. In all, Leffler served in the U.S. House from March 4, 1827 to March 3, 1829.
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