Jacob Banks Kurtz

Jacob Banks Kurtz ( born October 31, 1867 in Delaware, Juniata County, Pennsylvania, † September 18, 1960 in Altoona, Pennsylvania ) was an American politician. Between 1923 and 1935 he represented the State of Pennsylvania in the U.S. House of Representatives.

Career

Jacob Kurtz attended the common schools and then studied at Dickinson College in Carlisle. After a subsequent law studies at the University's School of Law and was admitted as an attorney of his 1893 he began to work in Altoona in this profession. Between 1905 and 1912 he served as district attorney in the local Blair County. During the First World War he was there head of the security committee and the local defense council. Politically, he was a member of the Republican Party.

In the congressional elections of 1922, Kurtz was the 21st electoral district of Pennsylvania in the U.S. House of Representatives in Washington DC chosen, where he became the successor of Evan John Jones on March 4, 1923. After five re- elections, he was able to complete in Congress until January 3, 1935 six legislative periods. Since 1933, he represented there as a successor to James Mitchell Chase the 23th district of his state. In his time as a congressman, the world economic crisis came in the early 1930s. Since 1933, the first New Deal legislation of the Roosevelt administration were adopted, which Kurtz's party faced a rather negative. 1933 was repealed by the 21st Amendment to the Constitution of the 18th Amendment in 1919. This was around the controversial and less successful Prohibition Act. In 1935, the provisions of the 20th Amendment to the Constitution were first applied, after which the term of the Congress ends, or begins on January 3.

1934 Jacob Kurtz was not confirmed in its mandate. After his time in the U.S. House of Representatives, he practiced as a lawyer again. In the years 1936, 1940 and 1948, he participated as a delegate to the Republican National Conventions relevant. From 1944 to 1946 he was the legal representative of the city of Altoona. He died on September 18, 1960 in Altoona, where he was also buried.