Background
Jack, Summers Melville was born on July 18, 1852 in Summersville, Pennsylvania, United States.
United States representative lawyer politician
Jack, Summers Melville was born on July 18, 1852 in Summersville, Pennsylvania, United States.
He attended Indiana Normal School. He studied law, was admitted to the bar in 1879 and commenced practice in Indiana, Pennsylvania.
He taught school for six years. He was district attorney for Indiana County, Pennsylvania from 1884 to 1890. He was the chairman of the congressional conference for the twenty-first district in 1896.
Jack was elected as a Republican to the Fifty-sixth and Fifty-seventh.
He was not a candidate for renomination in 1902. He resumed the practice of law, and was a delegate to the 1908 Republican National Convention at Chicago.
He died in Indiana, Pennsylvania, in 1945. Interment in the Oakland Cemetery in Indiana, Pennsylvania.
He was appointed a member of the board of trustees of the Indiana Normal School in 1886 and by reappointment served more than forty years. He served as a member of the congressional delegation sent to the Philippine Islands in 1901 to inquire into the advisability of establishing civil government.
Married November 8, 1881, Margaret F. Mitchell.