Jacob M. Lashley

Jacob M. Lashly (ca. 1882 – 1967) was a president of the American Bar Association.[1]

In 1953 Lashly was nominated by the United States to the United Nations Administrative Tribunal.[2]

In 1954 he was a member of a Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, committee that opposed the Bricker Amendment, which President Dwight D. Eisenhower said would curb his powers in dealing with foreign affairs.[3]

In 1956 he was a board member of the Metropolitan Church Federation of St. Louis, Missouri.[4]

He retired in 1965 after eighty years as a lawyer and died October 2, 1967.[1]

References
  1. "Obituaries in the News," Sheboygan Press, Wisconsin, October 3, 1967, image 12
  2. "Lawyer Is Named for UN Tribunal Post," The Fresno Bee, December 5, 1953, image 6
  3. "Anti-Bricker Amendment Group Forms," Pittsburgh Post-Gazette, January 26, 1954, image 4
  4. "New Church Federation," St. Louis Post-Dispatch, January 17, 1956, image 28


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