Jacob Senewell Yost

Jacob Senewell Yost (July 29 1801-March 7 1872) was a Pennsylvania Politician and Member of Congress.

Yost was born in Pottsgrove Township, Pennsylvania, near Pottstown, Pennsylvania. He attended the common schools and Fourth Street Academy in Philadelphia. He engaged in agricultural pursuits and served as publisher and editor of the "La Fayette Aurora" in La Fayette, Pennsylvania.

He was a member of the Pennsylvania State House of Representatives from 1836 to 1839

Yost elected as a democrat to the Twenty-Eighth and Twenty-Ninth Congresses serving from 1843 to 1847.

He resumed a political position as the U.S. Marshal for the Eastern District of Pennsylvania by appointment of President James Buchanan, serving from 1857 until his resignation in 1860.

Afterward he continued his agricultural pursuits until his death in Pottstown, Pennsylvania, at the age of 70.

He was interred in Edgewood Cemetery in Pottstown, Pennsylvania.

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