Andrew Jacobs (lawyer)

For other uses, see Andrew Jacobs (disambiguation).

Andrew Jacobs (February 22, 1906 – December 17, 1992) was a lawyer, judge, and Congressman for one term, in Indiana. His son, Andrew Jacobs, Jr., was also a Congressman.

Biography

Jacobs attended the public schools near his birthplace (Gerald, Indiana), and later attended St. Benedict's College, Atchison, Kansas. He graduated from Ben Harrison Law School, in Indianapolis in 1928. He served as public defender in Marion County Felony Court, 1930–33.

In 1948 he was elected as a Democrat to the Eighty-first United States Congress (January 3, 1949 – January 3, 1951). He was an unsuccessful candidate for reelection in 1950. He was a delegate to the Democratic National Conventions in 1952 and 1956. He was served as judge, criminal court of Marion County, 1975–77, and was a resident of Indianapolis, until his death in 1992.

Sources

• Andrew Jacobs at the Biographical Directory of the United States Congress

United States House of Representatives
Preceded by Louis Ludlow	Member of the U.S. House of Representatives from Indiana's 11th congressional district 1949–1951	Succeeded by Charles B. Brownson

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