Ephraim Leister Acker

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Ephraim Leister Acker (January 11, 1827–May 12, 1903) was a Democrat member of the U.S. House of Representatives from Pennsylvania.

Ephraim L. Acker was born in Marlborough Township, Pennsylvania. He attended the common schools and the academy at Sumneytown, Pennsylvania. He graduated from Marshall College in Mercersburg, Pennsylvania, in 1847. He taught school for two years, and was graduated in medicine from the University of Pennsylvania at Philadelphia in March 1852. He was editor and publisher of the Norristown Register from 1853 to 1877. He served as superintendent of the schools of Montgomery County, Pennsylvania, from June 1854 to June 1860. He was appointed postmaster of Norristown, Pennsylvania, in March 1860 by President James Buchanan and after serving eleven months was removed by President Abraham Lincoln. He served as inspector of Montgomery County Prison for three years.

Acker was elected as a Democrat to the Forty-second Congress. He was an unsuccessful candidate for reelection in 1872. He resumed the publication of his newspaper until 1877, when he began the study of law. He was admitted to the bar and practiced until his death in Norristown in 1903. Interment in Norris City Cemetery in Norriton Township, Montgomery County, Pennsylvania.

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• Biography at the Biographical Directory of the United States Congress
• The Political Graveyard

Preceded by John D. Stiles

Member of the U.S. House of Representatives from Pennsylvania's 6th congressional district 1871 - 1873

Succeeded by James S. Biery