Jacob Kerlin McKenty

Jacob Kerlin McKenty ( born January 19, 1827 in Douglasville, Berks County, Pennsylvania, † January 3, 1866 ) was an American politician. In the years 1860 and 1861 he represented the State of Pennsylvania in the U.S. House of Representatives.

Career

Jacob McKenty attended until 1848, the Yale College. After a subsequent law studies at the same institution and its 1851 was admitted to the bar he began to work in Reading in this profession. Between 1856 and 1858 he was a prosecutor in Berks County. Politically, he joined the Democratic Party.

After the death of Rep. John Schwartz McKenty was in the overdue election for the eighth seat of Pennsylvania as his successor in the U.S. House of Representatives in Washington DC chosen, where he took up his new mandate on December 3, 1860. Since he did not stand in the regular congressional elections of 1860 for re-election, he could only finish the current term in Congress until March 3, 1861. This was marked by the events in the immediate run-up to the Civil War.

In the years 1862 and 1864 McKenty sought unsuccessfully to his party's nomination for the respective congressional elections. Otherwise, he practiced as a lawyer again. He died on January 3, 1866 in his birthplace of Douglasville.