Andrew Jacobs, Jr.

Andrew Jacobs Jr. ( born February 24, 1932 in Indianapolis, Indiana, † December 28, 2013 ) was an American politician. Between 1965 and 1997 he represented two times the state of Indiana in the U.S. House of Representatives.

Career

Andrew Jacobs Jr. was the son of Congressman Andrew Jacobs (1906-1992) and husband of Deputies Martha Keys of Kansas. He attended until 1949, the Shortridge High School in Indianapolis and served from 1950 to 1952 in the United States Marine Corps. He studied at Indiana University until 1958, among other Jura. After qualifying as a lawyer, he began to practice in this profession. At the same time he proposed as a member of the Democratic Party launched a political career. In the years 1959 and 1960 he sat as an MP in the House of Representatives from Indiana.

In the congressional elections of 1964, Jacobs was the eleventh electoral district of Indiana in the U.S. House of Representatives in Washington DC chosen, where he became the successor of Donald C. Bruce on January 3, 1965. After three re- elections, he was able to complete in Congress until January 3, 1973 four legislative sessions. These were determined by the events of the civil rights movement and the Vietnam War. In 1972, he lost to William H. Hudnut.

In the elections of 1974, Jacobs made ​​the re-entry into Congress, where he could replace 1975 Hudnut again on January 3. After ten re- election, he could spend up to January 3, 1997 eleven successive terms in the U.S. House of Representatives. Since 1983 he represented there as a successor of Philip R. Sharp tenth district of his state. After retiring from Congress Jacobs was active as a writer. Most recently, he lived in Indianapolis. He had two grown sons.