{{Short description|American politician}} {{Infobox officeholder | name = Jacob Krebs | image = | caption = | state = Pennsylvania | district = 7th | term_start = December 4, 1826 | term_end = March 3, 1827 | preceded = William Addams<br/>Henry Wilson | succeeded = William Addams<br/>Joseph Fry, Jr. | birth_date = {{birth date|1782|03|13}} | death_date = {{death date and age|1847|09|26|1782|03|13}} | birth_place = {{no wrap|Longswamp Township, Pennsylvania, U.S.}} | death_place = {{no wrap|Orwigsburg, Pennsylvania, U.S.}} | party = Jacksonian | alma_mater = }} '''Jacob Krebs''' (March 13, 1782 – September 26, 1847) was an American politician who served as a Jacksonian member of the U.S. House of Representatives for Pennsylvania's 7th congressional district from 1826 to 1827.
==Early life== Krebs was born on March 13, 1782, in Longswamp Township, Pennsylvania<ref>Biographical and Portrait Cyclopedia of Schuylkill County Pennsylvania, by Samuel T. Wiley, edited by Henry W. Ruoff, published by Rush, West and Company 1893 - Philadelphia, Pa, Page 316</ref> to Michael and Catherine Kunz Krebs.<ref>{{cite web |title=Pennsylvania Senate Library - Jacob Krebs Biography |url=https://www.library.pasen.gov/people/member-biography?ID=4887&body=S |accessdate=1 March 2023}}</ref>
==Career== As a young man, Krebs relocated from Longswamp Township to Schuylkill Haven, Pennsylvania, where he purchased a large tract of land, part of which became the county farm known today as Rest Haven. He devoted his time to developing this property "and became very wealthy for a man of his time. He stood as one of the most prominent and widely known and influential men of his time," according to an 1893 century book on the history of Schuylkill County, Pennsylvania.<ref>Biographical and Portrait Cyclopedia of Schuylkill County Pennsylvania, by Samuel T. Wiley, edited by Henry W. Ruoff, published by Rush, West and Company 1893 - Philadelphia, Pa, Page 316</ref> He married Elizabeth Bayer/Boyer.<ref>{{cite web |title=Pennsylvania Senate Library - Jacob Krebs Biography |url=https://www.library.pasen.gov/people/member-biography?ID=4887&body=S |accessdate=1 March 2023}}</ref>
===Politics=== As a politician, Krebs served as a Republican member of the Pennsylvania House of Representatives from 1812 to 1814.<ref>{{cite web |title=Pennsylvania State Senate - Jacob Kreps Biography |url=https://www.legis.state.pa.us/cfdocs/legis/BiosHistory/MemBio.cfm?ID=4887&body=S |website=www.legis.state.pa.us |accessdate=26 February 2019}}</ref>
As a Jacksonian Democrat, he subsequently was elected as a U.S. Representative to the 19th U.S. Congress, filling the vacancy caused by the death of Henry Wilson. He served in this capacity from December 4, 1826, to March 3, 1827 and did not run for reelection.
From 1828 to 1836, he served as a Democrat in the Pennsylvania Senate, where he represented the Pennsylvania's 6th district.<ref>{{cite web | last = Cox | first = Harold | title = Senate Members K| publisher = Wilkes University | work = Wilkes University Election Statistics Project| date = | url =http://staffweb.wilkes.edu/harold.cox/legis/SK.html}}</ref> He was elected Register of Wills, Clerk of Courts and Recorder for Schuylkill County, which was a combined office at the time, serving from 1840 to 1842. After each term of his various public offices ended, he consistently returned to his previous occupation in agriculture.
==Death== Krebs died in Orwigsburg, Pennsylvania on September 26, 1847, at age 65, and was interred at St. Paul's Evangelical Lutheran Cemetery in Orwigsburg.<ref>Tombstone</ref>
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==External links== {{CongBio|K000324}} *[http://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/kraschel-kreutzer.html Jacob Krebs] at The Political Graveyard
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