Summers Melville Jack

Summers Melville Jack ( born July 18, 1852 in Summerville, Jefferson County, Pennsylvania, † September 16, 1945 in Indiana, Pennsylvania ) was an American politician. Between 1899 and 1903 he represented the State of Pennsylvania in the U.S. House of Representatives.

Career

Summers Jack attended both public and private schools of his home. He then attended the Indiana Normal School. He taught the following six years as a teacher. After studying law and his 1879 was admitted to the bar he began to work in the town Indiana in this profession. Between 1884 and 1890 he served as district attorney in the local Indiana County. He was from 1886 for more than 40 years curator of the Indiana Normal School. He also proposed as a member of the Republican Party launched a political career.

In the congressional elections of 1898 Jack was in the 21st electoral district of Pennsylvania in the U.S. House of Representatives in Washington DC chosen, where he became the successor of Edward Everett Robbins on March 4, 1899. After a re-election he was able to complete in Congress until March 3, 1903 two legislative sessions. In 1901 he was part of a congressional delegation that traveled to the Philippines to explore the possibility of building a civil administration. In 1902 he gave up another candidacy.

After the end of his time in the U.S. House of Representatives Summers Jack practiced as a lawyer again. In June 1908 he was a delegate to the Republican National Convention in Chicago in part, on William Howard Taft was nominated as a presidential candidate. He died on 16 September 1945 at the age of 93 years in Indiana, where he was also buried.