Jacob A. Garber

Jacob Aaron Garber (January 25, 1879 - December 2, 1953) was a U.S. Representative from Virginia.

Jacob A. Garber was born near Harrisonburg, Virginia. He attended the public schools of Rockingham County, and Bridgewater College. Principal of Brentsville Academy in 1904 and 1905. He graduated from Emerson College in Boston, Massachusetts, in 1907, and taught in Well's Memorial Institute in Boston in 1906 and 1907. Garber was the Secretary of Emerson College in 1907 and 1908. He then moved to Timberville, Virginia, in 1908 and was employed as a bank cashier until 1924. Garber then served as treasurer of Rockingham County from 1924 to 1929. He served as member of the State house of delegates from 1920 to 1922, and was interested in various orchard and canning organizations.

Garber was elected as a Republican to the Seventy-first Congress in 1928, but was an unsuccessful candidate for reelection in 1930 to the Seventy-second Congress.

After Congress, he served as chief of the field and processing-tax divisions at the Internal Revenue Office in Richmond, Virginia from 1931 to 1935. He served as delegate to the Republican National Convention in 1932, and was an unsuccessful candidate for election in 1940 to the Seventy-seventh Congress.

Garber served in the Virginia State Senate from 1945 to 1947. He later resumed operation of commercial orchards, and died in Harrisonburg, Virginia on December 2, 1953. He was interred in Church of the Brethren Cemetery in Timberville, Virginia.

Source

• Jacob A. Garber at the Biographical Directory of the United States Congress