Andrew Jacobs (February 22, 1906 – December 17, 1992) was a lawyer, judge, and

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for one term, in

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. His son,

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, was also a Congressman.

Biography

Jacobs attended the public schools near his birthplace (

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), and later attended St. Benedict's College,

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. He graduated from Ben Harrison Law School, in

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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

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s 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.

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