Jacob Kerlin McKenty

Jacob Kerlin McKenty (born January 19, 1827 in Douglassville , Berks County , Pennsylvania , †  January 3, 1866 there ) was an American politician . In 1860 and 1861 he represented the state of Pennsylvania in the US House of Representatives .

Career

Jacob McKenty attended Yale College until 1848 . After a subsequent law degree at the same institution and his license as a lawyer in 1851, he began to work in Reading in this profession. Between 1856 and 1858 he was a prosecutor in Berks County. Politically, he joined the Democratic Party .

After the death of MP John Schwartz , McKenty was elected as his successor to the US House of Representatives in Washington, DC at the by-election due for the eighth seat of Pennsylvania , where he took up his new mandate on December 3, 1860. Since he did not stand for re-election in the regular congressional elections of 1860 , he could only end the current legislative period in Congress until March 3, 1861 . This was shaped by the events in the immediate run-up to the civil war .

In the years 1862 and 1864 McKenty sought unsuccessfully to nominate his party for the respective congressional elections. Otherwise he practiced as a lawyer again. He died on January 3, 1866 in his native Douglassville.

Web links

• Jacob Kerlin McKenty in the Biographical Directory of the United States Congress (English)

• Jacob Kerlin McKenty in the database of Find a Grave (English)

predecessor	Office	successor
John Schwartz	United States House of Representatives for Pennsylvania (8th constituency) December 3, 1860 - March 3, 1861	Sydenham Elnathan Ancona