Jacob Edwin Meeker
American politician (1878-1918)
Jacob Edwin Meeker (October 7, 1878 – October 16, 1918) was a U.S. representative from Missouri.
Background
Born near Attica, Indiana, Meeker attended public schools. He graduated from Union Christian College, Merom, Indiana, in 1900, and from Oberlin Theological Seminary in 1904. While a student at Union Christian College he became pastor of a rural church in Vermilion County, Illinois. He was ordained as a minister in 1901 and assumed his duties in Vermilion County.
He was a missionary in Eldon, Missouri, for the Congregational Church in 1904. He moved to St. Louis, Missouri, in 1906 to take charge of the Compton Hill Congregational Church. He resigned in 1912. He studied law at Benton College of Law and was admitted to the bar in 1914.
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