Rhode Island
Gov. Isaac Wilbour
- May 7, 1806 - May 6, 1807
- April 25, 1783
- October 4, 1837
- Rhode Island
- Married Hannah Tabor; six children
- Representative
About
ISAAC WILBOUR was born in Little Compton, Rhode Island. He was elected to the Rhode Island General Assembly at the age of eighteen, served as Speaker of the Assembly four years later, and went on to become a state Senator and then Lieutenant Governor. With no gubernatorial election in 1806, Wilbour as Lieutenant Governor acted as governor. In 1807 he joined the U.S. House of Representatives, but declined appointment to fill a vacant seat in the U.S. Senate two years later due to his wife’s ill health. Although Wilbour had no formal legal education, he was appointed Associate Justice of the Rhode Island Supreme Court in 1818. In 1819 he became Chief Justice, a position that he held until 1827. For the remaining decade before his death, he devoted himself to religious activities.
Source
Biographical Directory of the U.S. Congress
Mohr, Ralph S. Governors for Three Hundred Years (1638-1954): Rhode Island and Providence Plantations.State of Rhode Island, Graves Registration Committee, August 1954.
The National Cyclopaedia of American Biography, Vol. 9. New York: James T. White & Company.
Sobel, Robert, and John Raimo, eds. Biographical Directory of the Governors of the United States, 1789-1978, Vol. 4. Westport, CT: Meckler Books, 1978. 4 vols.
