Isaac B. Van Houten was a U.S. Representative

United States House of Representatives

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 from New York

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Born in Clarkstown (now New City), Rockland County, New York

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, Van Houten attended the common schools.
He engaged in milling and agricultural pursuits.
He served as member of the State assembly 1833-1835.

Van Houten was elected as a Jacksonian to the Twenty-third

23rd United States Congress

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Congress (March 4, 1833-March 3, 1835).
He resumed his former business pursuits.
He died in Clarkstown (now New City), New York, August 16, 1850.
He was interred in the family burying ground on his estate near Clarkstown.

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