Richard Taylor Jacob

Richard Taylor Jacob ( born March 13, 1825 in Oldham County, Kentucky, † September 13, 1903 in Louisville, Kentucky ) was an American politician. In 1863 and 1864 he was Deputy Governor of the State of Kentucky.

Career

For health reasons, had Richard Jacob in his youth travel often. So he came to South America and then to California. As there broke out the rebellion against the Mexican government, he joined as Captain John C. Frémont and was there when California was taken from Frémont for the United States in possession. When it came to a court-martial proceedings against Frémont later, Jacob was one of the witnesses to his defense. He married his sister Sarah Benton, a daughter of U.S. Senator Thomas Hart Benton. Jacob studied law and became a lawyer. For some years he lived in Missouri before he in 1855 settled on a farm in Oldham County, Kentucky. This farm he cultivated with the help of slaves. Politically, he was a member of the Democratic Party. 1859 Jacob was elected to the House of Representatives from Kentucky. In the presidential election of 1860 he supported John C. Breckinridge.

At the outbreak of the Civil War was Jacob, although he himself employed slaves on the side of the Union. He set up your own cavalry company and took an active part in some battles. In 1862 he was elected to the side of Thomas E. Bramlette to the Lieutenant Governor of Kentucky. This post he held between 1863 and 1864. Yet he was Deputy Governor and Chairman of the State Senate. About 1863 issued by President Abraham Lincoln Emancipation Proclamation came the break between the governor and his deputy. As slaveholders Jacob was an opponent of the president announced abolition of slavery. In the presidential elections of 1864 Jacob George B. McClellan supported. During the election campaign, the military commander of the Union forces for Kentucky Jacob explained because of his anti-government Aüßerungen the enemy of the Union and had him arrested and spend the fronts to Richmond, Virginia, the capital of the Confederacy. Later he came to Washington D.C. He complained successfully to President Lincoln, who recanted his arrest. He then returned to Kentucky.

In 1867, Richard Jacob ran unsuccessfully for the U.S. House of Representatives. In 1876 he was for a term judge in Oldham County. At the same time he became a member of the Republican Party. He died on September 13, 1903 in Louisville.