Jacob Edwin Meeker (October 7, 1878 – October 16, 1918) was a

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from

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, Meeker attended the 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

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. 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

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, in 1906 to take charge of the Compton Hill Congregational Church. He resigned in 1912. He studied law at

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and was admitted to the bar in 1914. Meeker was elected as a Republican to the Sixty-fourth and Sixty-fifth Congresses and served from March 4, 1915, until his death from

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in St. Louis, Missouri, on October 16, 1918. He was interred in Union Cemetery,

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Jacob E. Meeker, late a representative from Missouri, Memorial addresses delivered in the House of Representatives and Senate frontispiece 1920
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