Isaac Smith (Pennsylvania)
Isaac Smith (January 4, 1761 – April 4, 1834) was a United States Representative from Pennsylvania.
Irwin was born in Chester County, Pennsylvania. He engaged in agricultural pursuits near Level Corners, Pennsylvania. He was a member of the Pennsylvania House of Representatives from 1806 to 1808.
Smith was elected as a Republican to the Thirteenth Congress. He resumed agricultural pursuits and also engaged in the occupation of millwright. He died on his farm at Level Corners, near Jersey Shore, Pennsylvania, in 1834. Interment in the Pine Creek Presbyterian Churchyard, reinterment in Jersey Shore Cemetery, Jersey Shore, Lycoming County, Pennsylvania.
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