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Christiancy, Isaac P

lawyer, statesman, was born March, 1812, in Johnstown, N. Y. He was prosecuting attorney for Monroe county, and in 1848 attended the free soil convention in Buffalo. In 1849 he was elected to the state senate; in 1852 was the candidate for governor of the free soil party, and was a prime mover in the political combinations of 1854. He was a delegate to the Philadelphia convention of 1856, and soon afterwards purchased The Monroe Commercial and became its editor. In 1857 he was elected a judge of the supreme court of the state, and in 1865 re-elected for eight years by the unanimous vote of all parties. He served as an officer on the staffs of Generals A. A. Humphreys and G. A. Custer during the rebellion; and was elected a senator in congress from Michigan for the term ending in 1881, and resigned in January, 1879, to accept the appointment of United States minister to Peru. He died Sept. 8, 1890, in Lansing, Mich. man.