Biography

05/27/1798 - 11/03/1861

DILLINGER, Jacob, a Representative from Lehigh County; born, May 27, 1798 in Upper Milford Township, Lehigh County, Pa.; unsuccessful campaign, sheriff, Lehigh County (1820); elected, auditor, Lehigh County (1823-1824); elected as a Democrat to the Pennsylvania House of Representatives for the 1824-1825 term; reelected to the House for 3 more consecutive terms; appointed, clerk of the Orphan’s court, Quarter Sessions and Oyer and Terminer, Lehigh County (1830-1836); elected, delegate, National Democratic Convention (1833, 1836); elected, prothonotary, Lehigh County; elected, delegate, Pennsylvania Constitutional Convention (1837-1838); appointed, associate judge, Lehigh County (1844-1849); elected, associate judge, Lehigh County (1851-1855); president, Allentown Bank (1855-1861); died, November 3, 1861 in Allentown, Lehigh County, Pennsylvania; interred, Linden Street Cemetery, Allentown, Lehigh County, Pennsylvania.