Andrew Jacobs

Andrew Jacobs ( February 22, 1906 * Gerald, Perry County, Indiana, † December 17, 1992 in Indianapolis, Indiana ) was an American politician. Between 1949 and 1951 he represented the State of Indiana in the U.S. House of Representatives.

Career

Andrew Jacobs was the father of Congressman Andrew Jacobs born in 1932 junior. He attended the common schools and then the Saint Benedict 's College in Atchison (Kansas). After a subsequent law studies at the Ben Harrison Law School in Indianapolis and 1928, his admission to the bar he began in Indianapolis in this profession Between 1930 and 1933 he worked as a public defender.

Politically, Jacobs member of the Democratic Party. In the congressional elections of 1948 he was in the eleventh electoral district of Indiana in the U.S. House of Representatives in Washington DC chosen, where he became the successor of Louis Ludlow on January 3, 1949. Since he has not been confirmed in 1950, he was able to complete only one term in Congress until January 3, 1951. After his retirement from the U.S. House of Representatives Jacobs again worked as a lawyer. In the years 1952 and 1956, he participated as a delegate to the respective Democratic National Conventions; 1975 to 1977 he was a criminal court judge in Marion County. Andrew Jacobs died on 17 December 1992 in Indianapolis.