Jacob Markell

Jacob Markell ( born May 8, 1770, the Schenectady County, New York, † November 26, 1852 in Manheim, New York) was an American lawyer and politician. Between 1813 and 1815 he represented the State of New York in the U.S. House of Representatives. Congressman Henry Markell was his son.

Career

Jacob Markell was born about five years before the outbreak of the War of Independence in Schenectady County and grew up there. During this time he attended community schools. In 1790 he moved to Manheim, where he worked in agriculture. Markell held the position as a justice of the peace. He was 1797-1819 and 1824-1829 Supervisor in the Town of Manheim. He was also a judge at the Court of Common Pleas in Montgomery County. Politically, he was a member of the Federalist Party.

In the congressional elections of 1812, for the 13th Congress, he was in the 14th electoral district of New York in the U.S. House of Representatives in Washington DC chosen, where he became the successor of Daniel Avery on March 4, 1813. He retired after the March 3, 1815 out of the Congress.

In 1820 he sat for Herkimer County in the New York State Assembly. He died on November 26, 1852 in Manheim, and was then buried there on the Snells Bush Cemetery.