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Jacob Michael Kunkel (July 13, 1822 – April 7, 1870) was a
US Representative
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from
Maryland
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.
Born in
Frederick, Maryland
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, Kunkel attended the Frederick Academy for Boys and graduated from the
University of Virginia at Charlottesville
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in 1843.
He studied law, was
admitted to the bar
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, and began to practice in Frederick in 1846. He went on to serve in the
Maryland Senate
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from 1850 to 1856.
Kunkel was elected as a
Democrat
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Politics
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*A member of a Democratic Party:
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to the
Thirty-fifth and
Thirty-sixth Congresses (March 4, 1857 – March 3, 1861).
Afterward, he resumed the practice of law in his native city. He served as delegate to the
Loyalist Convention
The National Union Convention (also known as the Loyalist Convention, the Southern Loyalist Convention, the National Loyalists' Loyal Union Convention, or the Arm-In-Arm Convention) was held on August 14, 15, and 16 1866, in Philadelphia, Pennsylva ...
in
Philadelphia
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in 1866. He died in Frederick, Maryland.
References
1822 births
1870 deaths
Democratic Party Maryland state senators
University of Virginia alumni
Politicians from Frederick, Maryland
Maryland lawyers
Democratic Party members of the United States House of Representatives from Maryland
Burials at Mount Olivet Cemetery (Frederick, Maryland)
19th-century American politicians
19th-century American lawyers
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