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History and Government—Congressional Biographies—WashingtonIsaac Ingalls STEVENS
(1818-1862)
STEVENS, Isaac Ingalls,
(cousin of Charles Abbot Stevens and Moses Tyler Stevens), a
Delegate from the Territory of Washington; born in North Andover
(then a part of Andover), Essex County, Mass., March 25, 1818;
attended Phillips Academy, Andover, Mass., and was graduated from
the United States Military Academy at West Point in 1839; entered
the Corps of Engineers and served on the staff of General Scott in
Mexico; assistant in charge of the Coast Survey Office in
Washington, D.C.; organized and commanded the northern Pacific
exploration party which explored and surveyed the route for a
railway from St. Paul to Puget Sound in 1853; resigned his
commission as major in the Corps of Engineers to become Governor;
Governor of the Territory of Washington from 1853 to 1857; was a
candidate for the Democratic nomination to Congress in 1855, but
withdrew; elected as a Democrat to the Thirty-fifth and
Thirty-sixth Congresses (March 4, 1857-March 3, 1861); was not a
candidate for renomination in 1860; delegate to the Democratic
National Conventions at Charleston and Baltimore in 1860; during
the Civil War entered the Union Army as a colonel of the
Seventy-ninth New York Highlanders; appointed brigadier general and
later major general in command of a division; killed at the Battle
of Chantilly, Virginia, September 1, 1862; interment in Island
Cemetery, Newport, R.I.
Bibliography
Hazard, Joseph Taylor. Companion of Adventure; A Biography of
Isaac Ingalls Stevens, First Governor of Washington Territory.
Portland, Oreg.: Binfords and Mort, 1952; Richards, Kent D.
Isaac I. Stevens: Young Man in a Hurry. Provo, Utah: Brigham
Young University Press, 1979. Reprint, Pullman, Wash.: Washington
State University Press, 1993.
Source: Biographical Directory of the United States Congress, 1771-Present
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