Jacob Buehler Snider
{{Short description|American politician}}
{{Use mdy dates|date=November 2021}}
{{Infobox officeholder
| name = Jacob Buehler Snider
| party = Democratic
| order = 23rd
| title = Lieutenant Governor of Mississippi
| term_start = January 26, 1936
| term_end = January 16, 1940
| governor = Hugh L. White
| predecessor = Dennis Murphree
| successor = Dennis Murphree
| birth_date = {{birth date|1886|6|17|mf=y}}
| birth_place = Grenada, Mississippi, US
| death_date = {{death date and age|1966|3|15|1886|6|17|mf=y}}
| death_place = Pascagoula, Mississippi, US
| spouse = Annette
| allegiance = {{flagu|United States|1912}}
| branch = {{flag|United States Army}}
| serviceyears = 1916–1918
| unit =
| commands =
| battles = World War I
| state_house1 = Mississippi
| district1 = Tate County
| termstart =
| termend =
| termstart1 = January 1928
| termend1 = January 1932
| image = J_B_Snider.jpg
}}
Jacob Buehler Snider Jr. (June 17, 1886 – March 15, 1966) was an American politician from Mississippi. Snider served as Mississippi's 23rd Lieutenant Governor from 1936 to 1940 under Governor Hugh L. White.
Biography
Jacob Buehler Snider, Jr. was born on June 17, 1886, in Grenada, Mississippi.{{Cite web |title=Jacob Snider in Social Security Death Index |url=https://www.fold3.com/record/54052167/jacob-snider-social-security-death-index |access-date=2022-10-30 |website=Fold3 |language=en}}{{Cite journal |last=Mississippi. Legislature |date=1936-01-01 |title=Hand book : biographical data of members of Senate and House, personnel of standing committees [1936] |url=https://egrove.olemiss.edu/sta_leghb/2 |journal=Mississippi Legislature Hand Books}}{{Cite news |date=1966-03-16 |title=Obituary for J B Snider Jr |pages=2 |work=Sun Herald |url=https://www.newspapers.com/clip/112271302/obituary-for-j-b-snider-jr/ |access-date=2022-10-30}} He was the son of Jacob Buehler Snider Sr. (who was of German descent) and Susie Virginia Still, and had two sisters.{{Cite news |date=1936-01-21 |title=Snider at helm as New Officer; Family Pioneers |url=https://www.newspapers.com/article/clarion-ledger-snider-at-helm-as-new-off/162281779/ |access-date=2025-01-06 |work=Clarion-Ledger |pages=19}} Snider attended the public schools of Grenada. He entered the printing business in Memphis, Tennessee, in 1902.{{Cite news |date=1936-12-28 |title=North Mississippi Publisher In Announcement Daily Register Purchase and Active Direction |url=https://www.newspapers.com/article/the-clarksdale-press-register-north-miss/162280638/ |access-date=2025-01-04 |work=The Clarksdale Press Register |pages=1}} He then owned and printed newspapers in Arkansas, New Mexico, and Colorado, before returning to Mississippi in 1909. He was the managing editor of the Natchez News in 1912 and 1913. He then moved to Senatobia, Mississippi, where he "established a chain of nine newspapers in Mississippi and Tennessee".
He enlisted in the United States Army in World War I, and left for Camp Hancock on July 2, 1918. At Camp Hancock, Snider was commissioned a Captain after passing the Central Machine Gun officers' training school. He fought in the war until the armistice on November 11, and returned to Senatobia on December 23, 1918.
In 1924, Snider was elected mayor of Senatobia, Mississippi. During his tenure as mayor, he helped fix a monetary deficit in the municipal power and light plant. He resigned from his mayor office on January 1, 1928 as he then represented Tate County in the Mississippi House of Representatives from 1928 to 1932.{{Cite journal |last=Mississippi. Legislature |date=1928-01-01 |title=Hand book : biographical data of members of Senate and House, personnel of standing committees [1928] |url=https://egrove.olemiss.edu/sta_leghb/1 |journal=Mississippi Legislature Hand Books}} During this term, Snider chaired the Municipalities Committee. From 1936 to 1940, Snider served as the Lieutenant Governor of Mississippi. In 1939, Snider unsuccessfully sought the Mississippi Democratic Party's nomination for Governor.{{cite news|url=https://news.google.com/newspapers?nid=999&dat=19381119&id=0M0kAAAAIBAJ&sjid=SA8GAAAAIBAJ&pg=2483,1552885|title=Mississippi race for Governor to attract big list|date=November 19, 1938|work=Woodville Republican|accessdate=September 17, 2014}} He died on March 15, 1966, in Pascagoula, Mississippi.
Personal life
Snider was raised as an Episcopalian but around 1914 became a Methodist due to there being no Episcopalian church in Senatobia. Snider married Annette Foster on July 4, 1917. They had one daughter, who married Hugh Oliver.
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{{Succession box
|before=Dennis Murphree
|title=Lieutenant Governor of Mississippi
|after=Dennis Murphree
|years=1936–1940}}
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{{Lieutenant Governors of Mississippi}}
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Category:Lieutenant governors of Mississippi
Category:People from Clarksdale, Mississippi
Category:United States Army personnel of World War I
Category:Democratic Party members of the Mississippi House of Representatives
Category:People from Senatobia, Mississippi
Category:20th-century members of the Mississippi Legislature
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