Given the question: Facts: - profession: physician , politician - death place: woodstown , new jersey - preceded: nathan t. stratton - term: march , 1859 4 , 1855 & ndash ; march 3 - party: opposition term -rrb- party -lrb- 1st term -rrb- republican -lrb- 2nd - death date: 9 october 1879 - district: 1st - succeeded: john t. nixon - birth date: march 30 , 1822 - state: new jersey - name: isaiah dunn clawson - birth place: woodstown , new jersey Based on these bullet points, write a short biography describing the life of isaiah d. clawson .
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isaiah dunn clawson -lrb- march 30 , 1822 -- october 9 , 1879 -rrb- was an american opposition party / republican party politician who represented new jersey 's 1st congressional district in the united states house of representatives from 1855 to 1859 .born in woodstown , new jersey on march 30 , 1822 , clawson attended delaware college , -lrb- newark , delaware -rrb- and lafayette college -lrb- easton , pennsylvania , and graduated from princeton college in 1840 and from the university of pennsylvania school of medicine in 1843 .he commenced the practice of medicine in woodstown .he served as a member of the new jersey general assembly in 1854 .he was elected as an opposition party candidate to the thirty-fourth congress and reelected as a republican to the thirty-fifth congress , serving in office from march 4 , 1855 to march 3 , 1859 , but was not a candidate for renomination in 1858 .after leaving congress , he resumed the practice of medicine in woodstown , where he died on october 9 , 1879 .interment in the baptist cemetery .