Isaac E. Holmes

Isaac Edward Holmes (April 6, 1796 – February 24, 1867) was a U.S. Representative from South Carolina.

Biography

Born in Charleston, South Carolina, Holmes attended the common schools, received private tuition, and graduated from Yale College in 1815. He studied law and was admitted to the bar in 1818. He commenced practice in Charleston.

He served as member of the Charleston city council and then in the State house of representatives in 1826-1829 and 1832-1833.

Holmes was elected as a Democrat to the Twenty-sixth and to the five succeeding Congresses (March 4, 1839 – March 3, 1851). He served as chairman of the Committee on Commerce (Twenty-eighth Congress) and Committee on Naval Affairs (Twenty-ninth Congress). After his tenure in Congress, he practiced law in San Francisco, California from 1851 to 1854, when he returned to Charleston, South Carolina. He again resided in San Francisco 1857-1861.

He returned to South Carolina in 1861 and was appointed a commissioner of the State to confer with the Federal Government prior to the outbreak of the Civil War.

He died in Charleston, South Carolina, February 24, 1867 and was interred in Circular Churchyard.

Sources

• United States Congress. "Isaac E. Holmes (id: H000738)". Biographical Directory of the United States Congress. 

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