Jacob Michael Kunkel

Jacob Michael Kunkel ( born July 13, 1822 in Frederick, Maryland, † April 7, 1870 ) was an American politician. Between 1857 and 1861 he represented the state of Maryland in the U.S. House of Representatives.

Career

Jacob Kunkel attended the Frederick Academy for Boys and then studied until 1843 at the University of Virginia in Charlottesville. After a subsequent law degree in 1846 and its recent approval as a lawyer, he started in Frederick to work in this profession. At the same time he proposed as a member of the Democratic Party launched a political career. Between 1850 and 1856 he was a member of the Senate of Maryland.

In the congressional elections of 1856 Kunkel was in the fifth electoral district of Maryland in the U.S. House of Representatives in Washington DC chosen, where he became the successor of Henry William Hoffman on March 4, 1857. After a re-election he was able to complete in Congress until March 3, 1861 two legislative sessions. These were shaped by the events in the immediate run-up to the Civil War. After the end of his time in the U.S. House of Representatives Kunkel again practiced as a lawyer in Frederick. In August 1866 he was a delegate to the Loyalist Convention in Philadelphia. He died on 7 April 1870 in his hometown of Frederick.