Summers Melville Jack (July 18, 1852 – September 16, 1945) was a

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member of the

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from

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Biography

Summers M. Jack was born in the

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town of

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. He attended

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. He taught school for six years. He studied law, was admitted to the bar in 1879 and commenced practice in

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. He was district attorney for

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from 1884 to 1890. He was appointed a member of the board of trustees of the Indiana Normal School in 1886 and by reappointment served more than forty years. He was the chairman of the congressional conference for the twenty-first district in 1896. Jack was elected as a Republican to the Fifty-sixth and Fifty-seventh congresses. He was not a candidate for renomination in 1902. He served as a member of the congressional delegation sent to the

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in 1901 to inquire into the advisability of establishing civil government. He resumed the practice of law, and was a delegate to the

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at Chicago. He died in Indiana, Pennsylvania, in 1945. Interment in the Oakland Cemetery in Indiana, Pennsylvania.

Sources

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