Jacob A. Cantor

Jacob Aaron Cantor (December 6, 1854 in New York City; † July 2, 1921 ) was an American politician. Between 1913 and 1915 he represented the State of New York in the U.S. House of Representatives.

Career

Cantor Jacob was born about six and a half years before the outbreak of the Civil War in New York City. He attended public schools. Then he spent several years as a reporter for the New York World. In 1875 he graduated from the Faculty of Law of the City College of New York. After receiving his license to practice law, he began to practice in New York City. Between 1885 and 1887 he sat in the New York State Assembly and 1887-1898 in the Senate from New York. During this time he held the post of president in 1893 and 1894. In 1901 he was elected Borough President of Manhattan. A renewed candidacy for the post he refused. Policy, he belonged to the Democratic Party.

Cantor was in a special election for the 63rd Congress in the 20th Election District of New York in the U.S. House of Representatives in Washington DC chosen, there to fill the vacancy that was created by the resignation of Francis Burton Harrison. His term of office began on 4 November 1913. In the congressional elections of 1914 for the 64th Congress Isaac Siegel was elected to the U.S. House of Representatives. Cantor has challenged his election success and then retired after the March 3, 1915 from the Congress of.

After his time Congress he resumed his previous work as a lawyer in New York City. He died about three years after the end of World War II and was then buried in the Temple Israel Cemetery in Hastings-on- Hudson. At that time he was president of the Tax Commission Board of New York City.