Jacob Falconer Explained

Jacob Falconer
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Birth Name:Jacob Alexander Falconer
Birth Date:26 January 1869
Birth Place:Ontario, Canada
Death Place:Wingdale, New York
State:Washington
Term:March 4, 1913 – March 3, 1915
Preceded:Constituency established
Succeeded:Constituency abolished
Office1:10th Speaker of the Washington House of Representatives
Term Start1:January 14, 1907
Term End1:January 11, 1909
Predecessor1:Joseph George Megler
Successor1:Leo O. Meigs
State Senate2:Washington
District2:38th
Term Start2:January 11, 1909
Term End2:January 13, 1913
Predecessor2:T. B. Sumner
Successor2:John E. Campbell
State House3:Washington
District3:48th
Term Start3:January 9, 1905
Term End3:January 11, 1909
Predecessor3:Herchmer Johnston
Successor3:John E. Campbell
Office4:5th Mayor of Everett, Washington
Term Start4:January 1, 1897
Term End4:January 1, 1899
Predecessor4:William C. Cox
Successor4:James O. Whitmarsh
Party:Progressive
Spouse:Mabel (Thomson) Falconer
(1869 - 1957)
Children:Harold Falconer (1897 - 1980)
Robert Falconer (1903 - 93)
Marjorie Falconer (1907 - 09)
Alma Mater:Beloit (WI) Academy, 1890
Beloit College (attended)
Profession:Lumber, Construction, Oil
Resting Place:Saugatuck Cemetery,
Saugatuck, Michigan.

Jacob Alexander Falconer (January 26, 1869 – July 1, 1928) was a one-term congressman from the state of Washington, elected at-large in 1912.

Early years

Born in Ontario, Canada, Falconer moved with his parents to Saugatuck, Michigan, in 1873.He attended the public schools, and moved to Washburn, Wisconsin Falconer graduated from Beloit (Wisconsin) Academy in 1890 and later took college work at Beloit College.

Political career

He moved west in 1894 to Everett, Washington, and was in the lumber business and served as mayor of Everett in 1897 and 1898. Falconer was member of the state legislature (1904–1908), and was speaker of the house during the 1907 session. He served as member of the state senate from 1909 to 1912.

Falconer ran for Congress in one of two new at-large seats Progressive in 1912, as Washington's congressional apportionment grew from three to five seats following the 1910 census. He was elected to the Sixty-third Congress and served for one term (March 4, 1913 – March 3, 1915), and was an unsuccessful candidate for the nomination for U.S. Senator on the Progressive ticket in 1914. The nomination went to Ole Hanson, who finished third in a five-man general election and was elected mayor of Seattle in 1918.

After politics

After leaving Washington, D.C., Falconer remained on the East Coast and worked in the ship-brokerage business in New York City from 1915 to 1919. He then moved to Fort Worth, Texas, in 1919 and engaged in road-construction contracting, then to Farmington, New Mexico, in 1925 and was in the oil and gas industry. Falconer died in Wingdale, New York, on July 1, 1928, and was interred in Saugatuck Cemetery in Saugatuck, Michigan.

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