Isaac Roosevelt | |
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| Member of the New York State Senate | |
| In office July 1, 1788 – June 30, 1792 | |
| In office September 9, 1777 – June 30, 1786 | |
| 2nd President of the Bank of New York | |
| In office 1786–1791 | |
| Preceded by | Alexander Hamilton |
| Succeeded by | Gulian Verplanck |
| Personal details | |
| Born | December 19, 1726 New York City, New York |
| Died | October 1794 (aged 67) |
| Political party | Federalist |
| Spouse |
Cornelia Hoffman
(m. 1752; died 1780) |
| Children | 10, including James Roosevelt |
| Parent(s) | Jacobus Roosevelt Catharina Hardenbroek |
| Relatives | See Roosevelt family |
| Occupation | Merchant and Politician |
Isaac Roosevelt (December 19, 1726 – October 1794) was an American merchant and Federalist politician. He served in the New York State Assembly and the state Constitutional Convention and achieved the most political success of any Roosevelt before Theodore Roosevelt. Isaac was the patrilineal great-great-grandfather of President Franklin Delano Roosevelt.[1] He was the second generation of what would later come to be known as the Hyde Park, New York branch of the extended Roosevelt family. Isaac's fortune from the refining of sugar, and his political accomplishments, became an essential root of the substantial wealth, prominence and influence that the Hyde Park Roosevelts came to amass.