Isaac W. Van Schaick

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Template:Short description Script error: No such module "infobox".Script error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters".Script error: No such module "Check for conflicting parameters". Isaac Whitbeck Van Schaick (December 7, 1817Template:SpndAugust 22, 1901) was an American businessman and Republican politician. He served two terms in the U.S. House of Representatives, representing Milwaukee County, Wisconsin. He also served six years in the Wisconsin State Senate and two years in the State Assembly. His nephew, Aaron Van Schaick Cochrane, was also a member of congress.

Early life

Van Schaick was born in Coxsackie, New York, on December 7, 1817. He was educated in the common schools there and worked on his father's farm. He engaged in the manufacture of glue in New York. He moved to Chicago in 1857, and to Milwaukee, Wisconsin, in 1861, where he was in the flour-milling business with his wife's family. After the American Civil War, Van Schaick traveled to Arkansas and worked for in the cotton industry. He returned to Milwaukee three years later.^[1]

Politics

Van Schaick was elected to the Milwaukee Common Council in 1871. He served as member of the Wisconsin State Assembly in 1873 and 1875. He served in the Wisconsin State Senate from 1877 to 1882.

Van Schaick was elected as a Republican to the Forty-ninth Congress in 1884 as the representative of Wisconsin's 4th congressional district. He declined to be a candidate for renomination in 1886, and was succeeded by Henry Smith of the Union Labor Party.

Van Schaick defeated Smith for election to the 51st United States Congress in 1888, receiving 22,212 votes to 20,685 for Smith (running on the Democratic and Labor tickets), 527 for Socialist John Schuler and 302 for Prohibitionist George Heckendorn.^[2] He was not a candidate for renomination to Congress in 1890, and was succeeded by Democrat John Lendrum Mitchell. In 1892 he ran unsuccessfully for State Senator from the 4th district, losing to Democrat James W. Murphy.^[3]

Late life

He moved to Catonsville, Maryland, in 1894, where he lived in retirement until his death there August 22, 1901. He was interred in Athens Cemetery, Athens, New York.

Personal life and family

Isaac Van Schaick married Eliza Sanderson, daughter of John Sanderson and Margaret Whitfield, in 1842, in Athens, New York. She survived him, but died two years later, in 1903.

Electoral history

Wisconsin Assembly (1872, 1874)

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Wisconsin Assembly, Milwaukee 1st District Election, 1872
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	Script error: No such module "Political party".	Jacob Braun	88	14.72%
Total votes			598	100.0%
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Wisconsin Assembly, Milwaukee 1st District Election, 1874
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	Script error: No such module "Political party".	John W. Cary	578	43.46%
Total votes			1,330	100.0%
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Wisconsin Senate (1876, 1878, 1880)

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Wisconsin Senate, 5th District Election, 1876
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	Script error: No such module "Political party".	Henry C. Runkle	3,200	41.22%
Total votes			7,763	100.0%
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Wisconsin Senate, 5th District Election, 1878
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	Script error: No such module "Political party".	David G. Hooker	2,639	41.31%
	Script error: No such module "Political party".	Robert Gunyan	312	4.88%
Total votes			6,388	100.0%
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Wisconsin Senate, 5th District Election, 1880
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	Script error: No such module "Political party".	Henry Smith	3,778	39.95%
Total votes			9,456	100.0%
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U.S. House of Representatives (1884)

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Wisconsin's 4th Congressional District Election, 1884
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	Script error: No such module "Political party".	Peter V. Deuster (incumbent)	15,907	46.49%	Script error: No such module "String".
	Script error: No such module "Political party".	Henry Smith	1,296	3.79%
	Script error: No such module "Political party".	C. E. Reed	226	0.66%
		Harrison C. Hobart (write-in)	1	0.00%
Plurality			876	2.56%	-4.30%
Total votes			34,213	100.0%	+71.66%
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U.S. House of Representatives (1888)

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Wisconsin's 4th Congressional District Election, 1888^[2]
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	Script error: No such module "Political party".	Henry Smith (incumbent)	20,685	47.31%	Script error: No such module "String".
	Script error: No such module "Political party".	John Schuler	527	1.21%
	Script error: No such module "Political party".	George M. Heckendorn	302	0.69%	Script error: No such module "String".
		Write-ins	3	0.00%
Plurality			1,527	3.49%	-8.32%
Total votes			43,729	100.0%	+39.18%
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Wisconsin Senate (1892)

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Wisconsin Senate, 4th District Election, 1892^[3]
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	Script error: No such module "Political party".	Isaac W. Van Schaick	4,824	47.19%	Script error: No such module "String".
	Script error: No such module "Political party".	William Bendike	98	0.96%	Script error: No such module "String".
	Script error: No such module "Political party".	Meschaff	86	0.84%
Plurality			390	3.82%	-12.15%
Total votes			10,222	100.0%	+0.06%
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References

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