Jacob Augustus Geissenhainer

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Jacob Augustus Geissenhainer (born August 28, 1839 in New York City , †  July 20, 1917 in Mount Pocono , Pennsylvania ) was an American politician . From 1889 to 1895 he represented the state of New Jersey in the US House of Representatives .

Career

Jacob Geissenhainer attended private schools and then studied until 1858 at Columbia College in his hometown of New York and for a short time at Friedrich-Wilhelms-Universität in Berlin . After studying law at Yale College and New York University and being admitted to the bar in 1862, he worked as a lawyer in New York. He later moved to New Jersey and embarked on a political career as a member of the Democratic Party .

In the congressional elections of 1888 Geissenhainer was elected to the US House of Representatives in Washington, DC in the third constituency of New Jersey , where he succeeded John Kean on March 4, 1889 . Re-elected twice, he completed three legislative terms in Congress by March 3, 1895 . From 1893 he was chairman of the Immigration and Naturalization Committee and the Committee on Naval Affairs in the House of Representatives.

In 1894, Geissenhainer was not re-elected and after his time in the US House of Representatives he practiced again as a lawyer. He died on July 20, 1917 in Mount Pocono and was buried in Philadelphia .

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SURNAME Geissenhainer, Jacob Augustus
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American politician
DATE OF BIRTH August 28, 1839
PLACE OF BIRTH New York City
DATE OF DEATH July 20, 1917
Place of death Mount Pocono , Pennsylvania