Isaac Clements (March 31, 1837 – May 31, 1909) was a U.S. Representative from Illinois.

Biography

Born near Brookville, Indiana, Clements attended the common schools. He was graduated from the Indiana Asbury College (now

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), Greencastle, Indiana, in 1859. He studied law in Greencastle. He moved to Illinois and taught school. He entered the Union Army in July 1861 and served as second lieutenant of Company G, Ninth Regiment, Illinois Volunteer Infantry. He remained in the service over three years. He was twice promoted. He was appointed register in bankruptcy in June 1867. He married Josie Nutt, the daughter of Indiana University president

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, in November 1864. Clements was elected as a Republican to the Forty-third Congress (March 4, 1873 – March 3, 1875). He was an unsuccessful candidate for reelection in 1874 to the Forty-fourth Congress. He was appointed a United States penitentiary commissioner in 1877. He was a United States pension agent in Chicago, Illinois, from March 18, 1890, until November 4, 1893. He moved to Normal, Illinois, in 1899, to serve as superintendent of the Soldiers' Orphans' Home. He subsequently received appointment as governor of the National Home for Disabled Veteran Soldiers in Danville, Illinois. He died there on May 31, 1909, and was interred in the Home's cemetery. On September 22, 1922, his remains were moved to Spring Hill Cemetery in Danville.

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