Jacob Michael Kunkel

Jacob Michael Kunkel (1859)

Jacob Michael Kunkel (born July 13, 1822 in Frederick , Maryland , †  April 7, 1870 there ) was an American politician . Between 1857 and 1861 he represented the state of Maryland in the US House of Representatives .

Career

Jacob Kunkel attended the Frederick Academy for Boys and then studied until 1843 at the University of Virginia in Charlottesville . After a subsequent law degree and his admission as a lawyer in 1846, he began to work in Frederick in this profession. At the same time he embarked on a political career as a member of the Democratic Party . Between 1850 and 1856 he was a member of the Maryland Senate .

In the congressional elections of 1856 Kunkel was elected to the United States House of Representatives in Washington, DC in the fifth constituency of Maryland , where he succeeded Henry William Hoffman on March 4, 1857 . After being re-elected, he was able to complete two legislative terms in Congress until March 3, 1861 . These were shaped by the events in the immediate run-up to the civil war . After the end of his time in the US House of Representatives, Kunkel practiced again as a lawyer in Frederick. In August 1866 he was a delegate to the Loyalist Convention in Philadelphia . He died on April 7, 1870 in his hometown of Frederick.

Web links

• Jacob Michael Kunkel in the Biographical Directory of the United States Congress (English)

• Jacob Michael Kunkel in the database of Find a Grave (English)