Jacob D. Leighty

Jacob D. Leighty (* November 15, 1839 in Greensburg, Westmoreland County, Pennsylvania, † October 18, 1912 in Saint Joe, Indiana ) was an American politician. Between 1895 and 1897 he represented the State of Indiana in the U.S. House of Representatives.

Career

In 1844, Jacob Leighty moved with his parents in DeKalb County, Indiana, where the family settled on a farm near Spencerville. He attended the public schools of his new home and taught himself then as a teacher, before he continued his own forestry education at a trade school in Fort Wayne. He then studied at Wittenberg College still in Springfield (Ohio ). This study, he broke off after two years to serve during the Civil War as an infantryman in the army of the Union.

After the war he worked with his father until 1875 in agriculture and trade. In 1875 he founded the city of Saint Joe. Politically, Leighty member of the Republican Party. Between 1886 and 1888 he sat as an MP in the House of Representatives from Indiana. In the congressional elections of 1894 he was in the twelfth electoral district of Indiana in the U.S. House of Representatives in Washington DC chosen, where he succeeded the Democrat William F. McNagny on March 4, 1895. Since he lost in 1896 against James Robinson McClellan, he was able to complete only one term in Congress until March 3, 1897.

Between 1897 and 1901 Jacob Leighty worked for the federal government as a pension agent in Indianapolis. He died on October 18, 1912 in the town he founded in Saint Joe, where he was also buried.