Editing Isaac Toucey (section)

{{Short description|American politician}}
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{{Infobox officeholder
|name         = Isaac Toucey
|image        = Isaac Toucey - Brady-Handy (cropped).jpg
|caption      = Toucey {{circa|1855-1865}}
|office       = 23rd [[United States Secretary of the Navy]]
|president    = [[James Buchanan]]
|term_start   = March 7, 1857
|term_end     = March 4, 1861
|predecessor  = [[James C. Dobbin]]
|successor    = [[Gideon Welles]]
|jr/sr1       = United States Senator
|state1       = [[Connecticut]]
|term_start1  = May 12, 1852
|term_end1    = March 3, 1857
|predecessor1 = [[Roger Sherman Baldwin]]
|successor1   = [[James Dixon]]
|office2      = 20th [[United States Attorney General]]
|president2   = [[James K. Polk]]
|term_start2  = June 21, 1848
|term_end2    = March 3, 1849
|predecessor2 = [[Nathan Clifford]]
|successor2   = [[Reverdy Johnson]]
|order3       = 33rd [[List of Governors of Connecticut|Governor of Connecticut]]
|lieutenant3  = [[Noyes Billings]]
|term_start3  = May 6, 1846
|term_end3    = May 5, 1847
|predecessor3 = [[Roger Sherman Baldwin]]
|successor3   = [[Clark Bissell]]
|state4       = [[Connecticut]]
|district4    = {{ushr|CT|1|1st}}
|term_start4  = March 4, 1837
|term_end4    = March 3, 1839
|predecessor4 = Constituency established
|successor4   = [[Joseph Trumbull (governor)|Joseph Trumbull]]
|state5       = [[Connecticut]]
|district5    = {{ushr|CT|AL|at-large}}
|term_start5  = March 4, 1835
|term_end5    = March 3, 1837
|predecessor5 = [[Noyes Barber]]
|successor5   = Constituency abolished
|birth_date   = {{birth date|1792|11|15}}
|birth_place  = [[Newtown, Connecticut]], U.S.
|death_date   = {{death date and age|1869|7|30|1792|11|15}}
|death_place  = [[Hartford, Connecticut]], U.S.
|party        = [[Democratic Party (United States)|Democratic]]
|spouse       = {{Marriage|Catherine Nichols|October 28, 1827}}
|signature    = Signature of Isaac Toucey (1792–1869).png
}}
'''Isaac Toucey''' (November 15, 1792{{spaced ndash}}July 30, 1869) was an American politician who served as a [[United States Senate|U.S. senator]], [[U.S. Secretary of the Navy]], [[U.S. Attorney General]] and the [[List of Governors of Connecticut|33rd Governor of Connecticut]].

[[File:Buchanan Cabinet.jpg|thumb|300px|''President Buchanan and his Cabinet''<br>From left to right: [[Jacob Thompson]], [[Lewis Cass]], [[John B. Floyd]], [[James Buchanan]], [[Howell Cobb]], Isaac Toucey, [[Joseph Holt]] and [[Jeremiah S. Black]], (c. 1859)]]