Jacob Augustus Geissenhainer
- Jacob Augustus Geissenhainer
Infobox Congressman
name = Jacob Augustus Geissenhainer
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state = New Jersey
district = 2nd
party = Democratic
term = March 4, 1889 – March 3, 1895
preceded = John Kean (R)
succeeded = Benjamin Franklin Howell (R)
date of birth = August 28 1839
place of birth = New York City
date of death = July 20, 1917
place of death = Mount Pocono, Pennsylvania
spouse =
profession = Politician
religion =
footnotes =
Jacob Augustus Geissenhainer, (August 28 1839 - July 20, 1917) was an American lawyer and Democratic Party politician who represented New Jersey's 3rd congressional district in the United States House of Representatives from 1889 to 1895.
Background
Geissenhainer was born in New York City and attended private schools. He graduated from Columbia College at New York City in 1858, going on to study law at Yale College, and at New York University, where he was graduated. He also attended the University of Berlin. In 1862 he was admitted to the bar and commenced practice in New York.
He was elected as a Democrat to the Fifty-first, Fifty-second and Fifty-third Congresses where he served from March 4, 1889 until March 3 1895. He also served as chairman of the Committee on Immigration and Naturalization (Fifty-third Congress), and on the Committee on Naval Affairs (Fifty-third Congress). Geissenhainer was an unsuccessful candidate for reelection in 1894 to the Fifty-fourth Congress. After this, he resumed the practice of law.
He died at Mount Pocono, Pennsylvania, and was interred in West Laurel Hill Cemetery, Bala Cynwyd, Pennsylvania.
External links
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* [http://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/gehant-geoghan.html#R9M0IXUPA Jacob Augustus Geissenhainer] at The Political Graveyard
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