Jacob Senewell Yost

Jacob Senewell Yost (* July 29, 1801 at Pottsgrove, Montgomery County, Pennsylvania, † March 7, 1872 ) was an American politician. Between 1843 and 1847 he represented the State of Pennsylvania in the U.S. House of Representatives.

Career

Jacob Yost attended the public schools of his home and then the Fourth Street Academy in Philadelphia. Subsequently, he worked in agriculture. He was also publisher and editor of a newspaper. At the same time he proposed as a member of the Democratic Party launched a political career. Between 1836 and 1839 he sat as an MP in the House of Representatives from Pennsylvania.

In the congressional elections of 1842 Yost was in the fifth electoral district of Pennsylvania in the U.S. House of Representatives in Washington DC chosen, where he became the successor of Joseph Fornance on March 4, 1843. After a re-election he was able to complete in Congress until March 3, 1847 two legislative sessions. Since 1845 he was chairman of the Committee on Engraving. The time until 1845 was marked by the tensions between President John Tyler and the Whigs. It was also at that time already been discussed about a possible annexation of the independent Republic of Texas since 1836 by Mexico. This eventually led in 1845 to the Mexican-American War.

After the end of his time in the U.S. House of Representatives Jacob Yost again worked in agriculture. Between 1857 and 1860 he was a U.S. Marshal for the Eastern part of the State of Pennsylvania, based in Philadelphia. Then he took his agricultural activities on again. He died on March 7, 1872 in Pottstown.