Jacob K. Shafer

Jacob K. Shafer
Delegate to the U.S. House of Representatives from Idaho Territory
In office
March 4, 1869 – March 3, 1871
Preceded byEdward Dexter Holbrook
Succeeded bySamuel A. Merritt
4th Mayor of Stockton, California
In office
January 1853 – May 1853
Preceded byWilliam Baker
Succeeded byM.B. Kenney
Personal details
BornDecember 26, 1823
Broadway, Virginia
DiedNovember 22, 1876(1876-11-22) (aged 52)
Eureka, Nevada
Political partyDemocratic
ProfessionAttorney

Jacob K. Shafer (December 26, 1823 – November 22, 1876) was a Delegate from Idaho Territory.

Born near Broadway, Virginia, Shafer was graduated from Washington and Lee University, Lexington, Virginia, in 1843. And from the law school of L.P. Thompson in Staunton, Virginia, in 1846. He moved to Stockton, California in 1849, was admitted to the bar in California and practiced law. He served as district attorney of the fifth judicial district of California in 1850. He served as mayor of Stockton in 1852 and as a judge of the San Joaquin County Court from 1853 to 1862. In 1862 he moved to what later became Idaho Territory.

Shafer was elected as a Democrat to the Forty-first Congress (March 4, 1869 – March 3, 1871), but was an unsuccessful candidate for renomination. He resumed the practice of law, then later he moved to Eureka, Nevada, where he died November 22, 1876. He was interred in the Masonic Cemetery.