Meyer Jacobstein

Meyer Jacob Stein ( born January 25, 1880 in New York City; † April 18, 1963 in Rochester, New York ) was an American politician. Between 1923 and 1929 he represented the State of New York in the U.S. House of Representatives.

Career

Meyer Jacob Stein attended the public schools in Rochester, where he had moved in 1882 with his parents. After he graduated from the local University of Rochester and then Columbia University in New York City. There he studied, among others, economic and political sciences. In 1907 he worked for some time for the U.S. Department of Commerce. From 1909 to 1913 he taught at the University of North Dakota in Grand Forks the subject Economics. Then he taught the same subject until 1918 at the University of Rochester. He was also in the time of the First World War director for emergency employment. This office was related to the war-related migration of the labor market.

Politically, Jacob Stein joined the Democratic Party. In the years 1924 and 1932, he participated as a delegate to the Democratic National Conventions relevant. In 1925 he was set up by his party as a candidate for election as mayor of Rochester; He rejected this nomination from but. In the congressional elections of 1922, he was the 38th electoral district of New York in the U.S. House of Representatives in Washington DC chosen, where he became the successor of the Republican Thomas B. Dunn on March 4, 1923. After two re- election he was able to complete in Congress until March 3, 1929 three legislative periods. These were determined by the events during the Prohibition era.

1928 renounced Jacob Stein on another Congress candidate. From 1929 to 1936 he worked in Rochester in the banking industry. He then headed the Rochester Business Institute. Between 1939 and 1946 he was part of the management of the Brookings Institution and from 1947 to 1952, he worked as an economic consultant for the Library of Congress. Then he withdrew into retirement. Meyer Jacob Stein died on 18 April 1963 in Rochester, where he was also buried.