Henderson Madison Jacoway (November 7, 1870 – August 4, 1947) was an American lawyer and politician who served six terms as a

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from

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from 1911 to 1923.

Early life and education

Born in

Dardanelle, Arkansas Dardanelle is a city in northeast Yell County, Arkansas, United States. The population was 4,745 at the 2010 census. Along with Danville, it serves as a county seat for Yell County. It is located near Lake Dardanelle. Dardanelle is part of the ...

to William Dodge Jacoway (judge for the Fifth Judicial Circuit) and Elizabeth D. Parks,"Promissary note of his uncle and namesake H. M. Jacoway in the Arkansas Records Catalog, upon which his father was a signator"
/ref> Jacoway attended the common schools. He was graduated from the Dardanelle High School in 1887, from the Winchester Normal College,

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, in 1892, and from the law department of

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, in 1898. He was

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in 1898 and commenced practice in Dardanelle.

Political career

He was the secretary of the

Dawes Commission The United States, American Dawes Commission, named for its first chairman Henry L. Dawes, was authorized under a rider to an Indian Office appropriation bill, March 3, 1893. Its purpose was to convince the Five Civilized Tribes to agree to cede tr ...

, engaged in distributing the estates of the Five Civilized Tribes of Indians in the then Indian Territory. He served as prosecuting attorney of the fifth judicial district 1904-1908. He served as member of the State Democratic central committee 1910-1912.

Congress

Jacoway was elected as a

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to the Sixty-second and to the five succeeding Congresses (March 4, 1911 – March 3, 1923). He was not a candidate for renomination in 1922.

Later career and death

He moved to

Little Rock, Arkansas (The Little Rock, The "Little Rock") , government_type = council-manager government, Council-manager , leader_title = List of mayors of Little Rock, Arkansas, Mayor , leader_name = Frank Scott Jr. , leader_ ...

, in 1922 and served as vice president of the People's Savings Bank from 1923 to 1929. He resumed the practice of law. Regional counsel of the Social Security Board for the States of

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, Oklahoma, and Kansas from 1936 to 1945. He died in

, August 4, 1947. He was interred in Roselawn Cemetery.

References

External links

Encyclopedia of Arkansas History & Culture entry
* {{DEFAULTSORT:Jacoway, Henderson Madison 1870 births 1947 deaths Democratic Party members of the United States House of Representatives from Arkansas