{{Short description|American politician (1820–1884)}} {{Infobox officeholder | name = Jacob Hart Ela | image = JacobHartEla.jpg | state = New Hampshire | district = 1st | term_start = March 4, 1867 | term_end = March 3, 1871 | preceded = Gilman Marston | succeeded = Ellery Albee Hibbard | office2 = Auditor of the Treasury for the Post Office Department | term_start2 = June 3, 1881 | term_end2 = August 21, 1884 (death) | preceded2 = | succeeded2 = | office3 = Member of the New Hampshire House of Representatives | term3 = 1857-1858 | birth_date = {{Birth date|1820|07|18}} | birth_place = {{nowrap|Rochester, Strafford County<br>New Hampshire, USA}} | death_date = {{Death date and age|1884|08|21|1820|07|18|mf=yes}} | death_place = {{nowrap|Washington, D.C., USA}} | resting_place = Rochester Cemetery<br>Rochester, Strafford County<br>New Hampshire, USA | party = Republican | other_party = | spouse = Abigail (Moore) Kelley Ela<br>Mary Handerson Ela | relations = | children = Frederic P. Ela<br>Wendell P. Ela<br>Charles S. Ela | alma_mater = | occupation = Printer<br>Politician<br>U. S. Marshal<br>Auditor | profession = | signature = | website = | footnotes = }}
'''Jacob Hart Ela''' (July 18, 1820 – August 21, 1884) was an American politician and a U.S. Representative from New Hampshire.
==Early life== Born in Rochester, New Hampshire, Ela attended the village school in Rochester. At fourteen years of age he was apprenticed in a woolen manufactory and subsequently learned the printer's trade.
==Career== Ela served as member of the New Hampshire House of Representatives in 1857 and 1858 and as United States marshal from July 1861 to October 1866.<ref>{{cite book|title=The Collector, Issues 138-147|year=1899|publisher=W.R. Benjamin, 1899|page=49|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=FVM9AAAAYAAJ&pg=PA49 |accessdate=22 July 2014}}</ref>
Elected as a Republican to the Fortieth and Forty-first Congresses, Ela served as United States Representative for the 1st congressional district or the state of New Hampshire (March 4, 1867 – March 3, 1871). He served as chairman of the Committee on Expenditures in the Department of the Interior (Forty-first Congress).
Ela was appointed by President Grant as Fifth Auditor of the Treasury on January 1, 1872, and served until June 2, 1881. On June 3, 1881, he was appointed Auditor of the Treasury for the Post Office Department and served in that position until his death.<ref>{{cite book|editor1-first=Andrew R.|editor1-last=Dodge|editor2-first=Betty K.|editor2-last=Koed|editor2-link=Betty Koed|title=Biographical Directory of the United States Congress, 1774-2005: The Continental Congress, September 5, 1774, to October 21, 1788, and the Congress of the United States, from the First Through the One Hundred Eighth Congresses, March 4, 1789, to January 3, 2005, Inclusive|year=2005|publisher=Government Printing Office|page=1008|isbn=9780160731761|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=v9MBIctdjjkC&pg=PA1008 |accessdate=22 July 2014}}</ref>
==Death== Ela died in Washington, D.C., on August 21, 1884 (age 64 years, 34 days). He is interred at Rochester Cemetery, Rochester, New Hampshire.
==Family life== The name Ela first comes to the US in the late 1630s, and the US family originates from Haverhill, Massachusetts, in the early 16th century, where the Ela family cemetery is located at Walnut Hill Cemetery in Haverhill, Massachusetts.
Ela married the widow, Abigail (Moore) Kelley and they had three sons, Frederic P., Wendell P., and Charles S. Abigail died in September 1879, and he married Mary Handerson on October 2, 1880.<ref>{{cite book|last1=Rev. Ela, DD|first1=David Hough|title=Genealogy of the Ela Family, Descendants of Israel Ela, of Haverville, Mass.|year=1896|publisher=Elwood S. Ela, Printer, Manchester, Conn. 1896|pages=[https://archive.org/details/genealogyofelafa1896elad/page/26 26]–27|url=https://archive.org/details/genealogyofelafa1896elad|accessdate=22 July 2014}}</ref>
==References== {{Reflist}}
==External links== {{CongBio|E000099}} * {{Internet Archive author |sname=Jacob Hart Ela}}
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