Isaac Lacey (December 1, 1776 in Litchfield,

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– April 28, 1844 in Chili Center,

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) was an American politician from New York.

Life

He was the son of Ebenezer Lacey and Mary (Hurd) Lacey. In 1816, he removed from White Creek, New York to a place in Genesee County which in 1822 became part of the Town of Chili, now in Monroe County. He was a member of the

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(Monroe Co.) in

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and 1831. He was a member of the

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(8th D.) from 1835 to 1838, sitting in the 58th, 59th, 60th and 61st New York State Legislatures. He was buried at the Fellows Cemetery in South Chili. Assemblyman John T. Lacey (b. 1808) was his son.

Sources

''The New York Civil List''
compiled by Franklin Benjamin Hough (pages 130ff, 142, 204, 211 and 286; Weed, Parsons and Co., 1858)
''Pen and Ink Portraits of Senators, Assemblymen and State Officers of the State of New York''
by G. W. Bungay (Albany NY, 1857; pg. 38 "JOHN T. LACEY")

External links

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