Henderson Madison Jacoway (November 7, 1870 – August 4, 1947) was an American lawyer and politician who served six terms as a U.S. Representative from Arkansas from 1911 to 1923.
He was the secretary of the Dawes Commission, engaged in distributing the estates of the Five Civilized Tribes of Indians in the then Indian Territory.
He served as prosecuting attorney of the fifth judicial district 1904-1908. He served as a member of the State Democratic central committee 1910-1912.
Congressedit
Jacoway was elected as a Democrat to the Sixty-second and to the five succeeding Congresses (March 4, 1911 – March 3, 1923). He was not a candidate for renomination in 1922.
Later career and deathedit
He moved to Little Rock, Arkansas, in 1922 and served as vice president of the People's Savings Bank from 1923 to 1929. He resumed the practice of law. Regional counsel of the Social Security Board for the States of Arkansas, Missouri, Oklahoma, and Kansas from 1936 to 1945.
He died in Little Rock, Arkansas, August 4, 1947. He was interred in Roselawn Cemetery.
Referencesedit
^"Promissary note of his uncle and namesake H. M. Jacoway in the Arkansas Records Catalog, upon which his father was a signator"
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