Political Career
A Republican, Stephenson's wealth made him an important figure in local and state politics. He would hold several offices including a town supervisor, county board chairman of the and justice of the peace. He was a member of the Wisconsin State Assembly (1866, 1868). In 1882, he was elected to the the Forty-eighth, and then reelected to the Forty-ninth, and Fiftieth Congresses (March 4, 1883-March 3, 1889). He represented Wisconsin's newly created 9th congressional district. He was not a candidate for re-election in 1888, and in 1899 was unsuccessful in his bid for the United States Senator.
Read more about this topic: Isaac Stephenson
Famous quotes containing the words political career, political and/or career:
“No wonder that, when a political career is so precarious, men of worth and capacity hesitate to embrace it. They cannot afford to be thrown out of their life’s course by a mere accident.”
—James Bryce (1838–1922)
“Cant is always rather nauseating; but before we condemn political hypocrisy, let us remember that it is the tribute paid by men of leather to men of God, and that the acting of the part of someone better than oneself may actually commit one to a course of behaviour perceptibly less evil than what would be normal and natural in an avowed cynic.”
—Aldous Huxley (1894–1963)
“Work-family conflicts—the trade-offs of your money or your life, your job or your child—would not be forced upon women with such sanguine disregard if men experienced the same career stalls caused by the-buck-stops-here responsibility for children.”
—Letty Cottin Pogrebin (20th century)