Background
BACHARACH, Isaac was born on January 5, 1870 in Philadelphia Pennsylvania. Son of S. Jacob and Betty (Nusbaum) Bacharach.
General politician representative
BACHARACH, Isaac was born on January 5, 1870 in Philadelphia Pennsylvania. Son of S. Jacob and Betty (Nusbaum) Bacharach.
They settled in Atlantic City, where he attended the public schools.
He entered the real-estate business and also became interested in the lumber business and in banking. Bacharach was elected as a Republican to the Sixty-fourth and to the ten succeeding Congresses, serving in office from March 4, 1915 to January 3, 1937, but was an unsuccessful candidate for reelection in 1936 to the Seventy-fifth Congress. He was also a delegate to the 1920 Republican National Convention in Chicago.
The home cared for children afflicted with infantile paralysis.
The building at 2305 Atlantic Avenue, Longport, New Jersey, became the borough hall in 1990. After leaving Congress, he engaged in the real-estate and insurance business in Atlantic City until his death there on September 5, 1956.
He was interred in Mount Sinai Cemetery in Philadelphia.
He served as member of the council of Atlantic City from 1905 to 1910, and served as a member of the New Jersey General Assembly in 1911.