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IOWA OFFICIAL REGISTER 1933-1934
BIOGRAPHIES
UNITED STATES SENATORS AND REPRESENTATIVES
BERNHARD M. JACOBSEN, CLINTON. - Representative in Congress for the second
congressional district, was born in Germany March 26, 1862, coming with his
parents to Clinton, Iowa, when he was fourteen years of age. At the age of
twenty-three he embarked in the mercantile business in which he was continuously
engaged until 1926 when he closed this out and in 1927 organized the Clinton
Thrift Company of which he is now the head. Served as postmaster of Clinton from
1914 to 1923. Married, May 28th, 1885, to Miss Lena Trager of Clinton, and
has five children, William S., Alma, Alvina, Marvin J. and Bernice. He is a
thirty-second degree Scottish Rite Mason, member of Odd Fellows, Elks, Eagles,
and Turner Society, Rotary, Kiwanis and Wapsipinicon clubs. Member of Lutheran
church. Elected to seventy-second congress November, 1930, and re-elected to
the seventy-third congress November, 1932. A democrat.
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