Ephraim Leister Acker

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

Ephraim L. Acker was born in Marlborough Township, Montgomery County, Pennsylvania. He attended the common schools and the academy at Sumneytown, a village in Marlborough Township. He graduated from Marshall College in Mercersburg, Pennsylvania, in 1847. He taught school for two years, and from the University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine in Philadelphia in March 1852, and University of Pennsylvania Law School in 1886.^[1] 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. He was interred in Norris City Cemetery in East Norriton Township, Montgomery County, Pennsylvania, near Norristown.

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• Ephraim Leister Acker at the Biographical Directory of the United States Congress
• The Political Graveyard