Isaac Williamson Scudder (1816 – September 10, 1881) was a
U.S. Representative
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from
New Jersey
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for one term from 1873 to 1875.
Early life and education
Born in Elizabethtown (now
Elizabeth, New Jersey
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. He was prosecutor of the pleas of
Hudson County
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from 1845–1855, and was appointed as a member of the first police commission of Jersey City, in 1866.
Scudder was elected director and counsel of the New Jersey Railroad and Transportation Co. May 14, 1866, and director of the
United New Jersey Railroad and Canal Company
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on May 21, 1872.
Congress
Scudder was elected as a Republican to the Forty-third Congress (March 4, 1873 – March 3, 1875).
He was not a candidate for reelection in 1874.
He was appointed solicitor of the
Pennsylvania Railroad
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Elizabeth, New Jersey
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The Political Graveyard
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