Background
Mckim, Isaac was born on July 21, 1775 in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States. Son of John and Margaret (Duncan) Mckim.
United States representative politician
Mckim, Isaac was born on July 21, 1775 in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States. Son of John and Margaret (Duncan) Mckim.
Born in Baltimore, Maryland, McKim attended the public schools, and later engaged in mercantile pursuits.
He served in the War of 1812 as aide-de-camp to General Samuel Smith. McKim was elected as a Democrat to the Seventeenth Congress to fill the vacancy caused by the resignation of Samuel Smith. On the same day, McKim was elected as a Jackson Republican to the Eighteenth Congress to fill the vacancy caused by the resignation of Representative-elect Smith and served from January 4, 1823, to March 3, 1825.
After Congress, McKim served as director of the Baltimore & Ohio Railroad Company from 1827 until 1831.
McKim returned to Congress, elected as a Jacksonian to the Twenty-third and Twenty-fourth Congresses and reelected as a Democrat to the Twenty-fifth Congress. He served from March 4, 1833, until his death in Baltimore, Maryland, on April 1, 1838.
He was interred in the burying ground of Saint Paul"s Church.
Isaac Mckim has been listed as a noteworthy congressman, merchant by Marquis Who's Who.
Member Maryland. Senate, 1821-1823. Member United States House of Representatives from Maryland., 17th, 23d-25th congresses, January 8, 1823-1825, 33-April 1, 1838.
Married Ann Bowly, December 21, 1808.
