Bernhard M. Jacobsen, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death

    

Bernhard M. Jacobsen

American politician

Date of Birth: 26-Mar-1862

Place of Birth: Tønder, Region of Southern Denmark, Denmark

Date of Death: 30-Jun-1936

Profession: politician

Nationality: United States

Zodiac Sign: Aries


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About Bernhard M. Jacobsen

  • Bernhard Martin Jacobsen (March 26, 1862 – June 30, 1936) was a Democratic U.S.
  • Representative from Iowa who served nearly three full terms during the Great Depression.
  • He was the father of William S.
  • Jacobsen, who succeeded him in Congress following his death. Born in Tönder, (which was then a part of Schleswig, Germany but is now in Denmark), Jacobsen attended the public schools.
  • He immigrated in 1876 to the United States with his parents, who settled in Clinton, Iowa.
  • He learned to speak English while serving as a helper in a Clinton sawmill.
  • He was employed as a clerk in a dry goods store until 1886, when he engaged in the mercantile business.
  • He served as postmaster of Clinton 1914–1923.
  • He retired from the mercantile business in 1927 and engaged in the industrial finance business. In 1930, Jacobsen was elected as a Democrat to represent Iowa's 2nd congressional district, unseating incumbent Republican Congressman F.
  • Dickinson Letts.
  • He was the first Democrat elected to the U.S.
  • House of Representatives from Iowa since 1916.
  • Jacobsen's defeat of Letts was particularly embarrassing for President Hoover, as the district included the President's home in West Branch, Cedar County.
  • In the next two elections (in which Iowa Democrats established, then retained, a clear majority of U.S.
  • House seats), Jacobsen won by large margins. On June 1, 1936, Jacobsen won the Democratic primary for a fourth term, this time to the Seventy-fifth Congress.
  • However, he died on June 30, 1936 in Rochester, Minnesota, after ten days of hospitalization.
  • A special nominating convention selected his son, William S.
  • Jacobsen, to fill his place on the ballot.
  • His son then held the seat in the general election, defeating Charles Penningroth of Cedar Rapids. He was interred in Springdale Cemetery, Clinton, Iowa.

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