Jacob Beeson Blair (11 April 1821-12 February 1901) was a member of the US House of Representatives (U-VA 11) from 2 December 1861 to 3 March 1863 (succeeding John S. Carlile) and from WV-1 from 17 December 1863 to 3 March 1865 (preceding Chester D. Hubbard).
Biography[]
Jacob Beeson Blair was born in Parkersburg, West Virginia in 1821, and he became a lawyer in 1844 and served as prosecuting attorney for Ritchie County. He went on to serve as a Unionist member of the US House of Representatives from 1861 to 1865, serving for West Virginia after it split from Virginia in 1863. He later served as minister to Costa Rica from 1868 to 1873, as an associate justice of the Supreme Court of Wyoming from 1876 to 1888, as a probate judge for Salt Lake County from 1892 to 1895, and as surveyor general of Utah from 1897 until his death in Salt Lake City in 1901.