Meyer Jacobstein

Meyer Jacobstein (1923)

Meyer Jacobstein (born January 25, 1880 in New York City , †  April 18, 1963 in Rochester , New York ) was an American politician . Between 1923 and 1929 he represented New York State in the US House of Representatives .

Career

Meyer Jacobstein attended public schools in Rochester, where he had moved with his parents in 1882. He then graduated from the University of Rochester there and then from Columbia University in New York City. There he studied economics and political science, among other things. In 1907 he worked for the US Department of Commerce for some time . From 1909 to 1913 he taught economics at the University of North Dakota at Grand Forks . He then taught the same subject at the University of Rochester until 1918. There he was director of emergency employment during the First World War . This office was connected with the reorganization of the labor market caused by the war.

Politically, Jacobstein joined the Democratic Party . In 1924 and 1932 he took part as a delegate at the respective Democratic National Conventions . In 1925 he was put up by his party as a candidate for the election of Mayor of Rochester; but he refused this nomination. In the 1922 congressional elections he was elected to the US House of Representatives in Washington, DC in the 38th  constituency of New York , where he succeeded Republican Thomas B. Dunn on March 4, 1923 . After two re-elections, he was able to complete three legislative terms in Congress by March 3, 1929 . These were determined by the events of the prohibition era.

In 1928 Jacobstein renounced another congressional candidacy. From 1929 to 1936 he worked in Rochester in the banking industry. He then headed the Rochester Business Institute . Between 1939 and 1946 he was a director of the Brookings Institution and from 1947 to 1952 he was an economic advisor to the Library of Congress . After that, he retired. Meyer Jacobstein died on April 18, 1963 in Rochester, where he was also buried.

Web links

• Meyer Jacobstein in the Biographical Directory of the United States Congress (English)

predecessor	Office	successor
Thomas B. Dunn	United States House of Representatives for New York (38th constituency) March 4, 1923 - March 3, 1929	James L. Whitley