Ken Jacob (born January 23, 1949) is an American Democratic politician who served in the

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and the

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from 1983 until 2004. Born in

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, Jacob graduated from the

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with a bachelor of science degree in education. He also has master's degrees in education, counseling, and public administration and a J.D. degree also from the University of Missouri. He previously worked as an executive director of an adolescent treatment center in

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. Jacob resigned from the Missouri Senate to take a seat to the state Labor and Industrial Relations Commission under Governor

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. In 2013, Governor

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appointed Jacob acting director of the Missouri's Division of Employment Security. Jacob made an unsuccessful bid for lieutenant governor in 2004 and an unsuccessful bid for Congress in 2008.

Electoral history

State representative

State Senate

Lieutenant governor

United States Representative

References

1949 births Democratic Party members of the Missouri House of Representatives Democratic Party Missouri state senators University of Missouri alumni Living people 20th-century members of the Missouri General Assembly 21st-century members of the Missouri General Assembly {{Missouri-MOSenate-stub