Isaac Edward Holmes (April 6, 1796 – February 24, 1867) was a

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from

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Biography

Isaac Edward Holmes was born in

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, on April 6, 1796. He attended the common schools, received private tuition, and graduated from

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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

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in 1826-1829 and 1832-1833. Holmes was elected as a

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to the Twenty-sixth and 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

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, from 1851 to 1854, when he returned to

. He again resided in San Francisco from 1857 to 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

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

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