Jacob Root

{{Short description|American politician (died 1861)}}

{{Use mdy dates|date=April 2024}}

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| state_delegate = Maryland

| district = Frederick County

| term_start = 1858

| term_end = 1860

| alongside = Stephen R. Bowlus, Oliver P. Harding, Ulysses Hobbs, John A. Koons, John B. Thomas

| predecessor = Lawrence J. Brengle, James S. Carper, James L. Davis, Daniel Grove, Peter Hauver, William N. Wolfe

| successor = Thomas J. Claggett, John A. Johnson, Andrew Kessler, David W. Naill, Jonathan Routzahn, William E. Salmon

| term_start2 = 1849

| term_end2 = 1852

| alongside2 = William P. Anderson, Daniel S. Biser, Benjamin A. Cunningham, Thomas H. O'Neal

| predecessor2 = Gideon Bantz, John D. Gaither, Peter Grabill, William Lynch, John Need

| successor2 = William P. Anderson, James M. Coale, George W. Ent, James M. Geyer, John Lee, Henry McElfresh, Davis Richardson

| term_start3 = 1846

| term_end3 = 1847

| alongside3 = George Doub, Peter Grabill, Jeremiah G. Morrison, James Stevens, Thomas Turner

| predecessor3 = Daniel S. Biser, Henry Boteler, Francis J. Hoover, Enoch Louis Lowe, George Zollinger

| successor3 = Gideo Bantz, John D. Gaither, Peter Grabill, William Lynch, John Need

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| death_date = {{death date|1861|5|27}}

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Jacob Root (died May 27, 1861) was an American politician from Maryland.