Jacob Edwin Meeker

Jacob Edwin Meeker (born October 7, 1878 in Attica , Fountain County , Indiana , † October 16, 1918 in St. Louis , Missouri ) was an American politician . Between 1915 and 1918 he represented the state of Missouri in the US House of Representatives .

Career

Jacob Meeker attended the public schools of his home country and then until 1900 the Union Christian College in Merom . He then studied until 1904 at the theological faculty of Oberlin College in Ohio . During his time at Union Christian College , he was a pastor in Vermilion County , Illinois . In 1901 he was officially ordained a minister. In that capacity, he returned to Vermilion County. In 1904 Meeker worked for the Congregational Church in Eldon, Missouri . From 1906 he lived in St. Louis, where he led the Compton Hill Congregational Church . In 1912 he resigned from his religious duties.

After studying law at Benton College of Law and being admitted to the bar in 1914, he began to work in this profession. Politically, Meeker was a member of the Republican Party . In the 1914 congressional election he was elected to the US House of Representatives in Washington, DC , in the tenth constituency of Missouri , where he succeeded Richard Bartholdt on March 4, 1915 . After re-election in 1916, he could remain in Congress until his death on October 16, 1918 . During this time, the American entry into the First World War fell . In October 1918, Jacob Meeker fell victim to the then rampant Spanish flu .

Web links

Jacob Edwin Meeker in the Biographical Directory of the United States Congress (English)

Jacob Edwin Meeker in the database of Find a Grave (English)

Individual evidence

^ Blythe Bernhard: When The 1918 Deadly Spanish Flu Hit, St. Louis Shut Down. The Quarantine Saved Countless Lives ( s ) In: Lake Expo . February 15, 2018 .: "Jacob Meeker, a St. Louis congressman, died Oct. 16, six days after touring Jefferson Barracks. Hey what 40. "

personal data
SURNAME	Meeker, Jacob Edwin
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	American politician
DATE OF BIRTH	October 7, 1878
PLACE OF BIRTH	near Attica , Indiana
DATE OF DEATH	October 16, 1918
Place of death	St. Louis , Missouri

[1] Blythe Bernhard: When The 1918 Deadly Spanish Flu Hit, St. Louis Shut Down. The Quarantine Saved Countless Lives ( s ) In: Lake Expo . February 15, 2018 .: "Jacob Meeker, a St. Louis congressman, died Oct. 16, six days after touring Jefferson Barracks. Hey what 40. "