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Isaac H. Williamson was born on September 27, 1767, in Elizabethtown (later Elizabeth), New Jersey, the youngest son of Gen. Matthias Williamson, Sr. and Susannah Halsted.
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Isaac H. Williamson was born on September 27, 1767, in Elizabethtown (later Elizabeth), New Jersey, the youngest son of Gen. Matthias Williamson, Sr. and Susannah Halsted.
Williamson attended the common schools.
He was admitted to the bar in 1791. He quickly built up a lucrative practice, showing such ability that Aaron Ogden, the leader of the eastern New Jersey bar. His reputation spread to other counties, and for some time he was prosecutor for Morris County, drawing up indictments which long served as models. A Federalist at first, he disagreed with that party about the War of 1812, and in 1815 was elected to the state Assembly on the Democratic ticket.
In 1817, when Gov. Mahlon Dickerson was chosen United States senator, Williamson was elected by the eastern New Jersey votes in the legislature to succeed him in the dual office of governor and chancellor at $2, 000 a year. He continued to be reelected annually without opposition and served until 1829. The governorship was uneventful during those twelve years of the "era of good feeling. " Williamson's lasting reputation came through his reviving the neglected alternative office of chancellor. New Jersey has followed the old English court system more closely than most of the other states, and until 1844 the governors handled equity and "prerogative" cases as "chancellor and ordinary, " though most of them before Williamson had slighted this office. The legislature in 1799 had authorized the chancellor to make, alter, and amend rules of practice "so as to obviate doubts, advance justice, and expedite suits in that court".
The first to attempt this seriously, Williamson made an exhaustive study of the English court of chancery and in 1822 drew up a set of fifty-eight rules which at the time of his death had been little altered. The new code was particularly important in its clarification of the situation of mortgages.
He increased the dignity as well as the effectiveness of the chancery court and laid the foundations for the unique position which it still holds in New Jersey. He was probably instrumental in separating the offices of governor and chancellor in 1844 so that the court would not be dependent upon the fortunes of frequent elections. He also aided the repeal of the statute forbidding the citing of an English precedent made after 1776 in a New Jersey court of law or equity.
His long term as governor-chancellor ended in 1829 when the Jackson element secured the election of G. D. Wall, who yielded to Peter Dumont Vroom. Williamson is said to have declined the opportunity to succeed Charles Ewing as chief justice of the state in 1832.
He sat in the state Council, or Senate (1831 - 1832), and was mayor of Elizabeth (1830 - 1833) but thereafter devoted himself to his practice without holding office until the last few weeks of his life, when he was chairman of the state constitutional convention. Isaac Halstead Williamson died on July 10, 1844, at his home in Elizabeth, New Jersey.
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At first, Isaac Halstead Williamson was a Federalist and from 1815 he became a Democratic.
On August 6, 1808, Isaac Halsted Williamson married Anne Crossdale Jouet. They had two sons.