Jacob Müller (politician)

Jacob Muller

Jacob Müller (born March 9, 1822 in Alsenz ; † August 31, 1905 ) was a lawyer , insurance salesman and politician .

Life

Jacob Müller studied law and became a member of the fraternity of Walhalla Heidelberg in 1840 . After the outbreak of the French February Revolution in the Palatinate in 1848, he was appointed civil commissioner for the Kirchheimbolanden district by the provisional government in Kaiserslautern . After the suppression of the Palatinate uprising , he fled to Switzerland and emigrated from there to the USA , where he settled in Cleveland ( Ohio ).

In 1854 he opened with Louis Ritter and Benjamin Beavies a law firm and founded in 1858, the fire insurance Germania Fire Insurance Company , which he headed until 1869th In 1856 he was elected to Cleveland City Council by the liberal German Democrats. Müller was an opponent of slavery and took part in the Pittsburgh Convention as a delegate. In 1871 Jacob Mueller was elected as Republican lieutenant governor of Ohio, whereupon he served from 1872 to 1874 as deputy to Governor Edward F. Noyes . Under President Grover Cleveland , he became Consul General for the United States in Frankfurt am Main in 1885 . In 1889 he resigned from this office. Jacob Müller died on August 31, 1905 and was buried in Woodland Cemetery.

literature

• Helge Dvorak: Biographical Lexicon of the German Burschenschaft. Volume I: Politicians. Volume 8: Supplement L – Z. Winter, Heidelberg 2014, ISBN 978-3-8253-6051-1 , pp. 100-102.
• Jörg Nagler:  Müller, Jacob. In: New German Biography (NDB). Volume 18, Duncker & Humblot, Berlin 1997, ISBN 3-428-00199-0 , p. 417 f. ( Digitized version ).

Web links

• Jacob Müller in the database of Find a Grave (English)
• Name register of the people involved in the "Palatinate Uprising" of 1849 (accessed on January 9, 2012)