Edwin Jaeckle
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Edwin F. Jaeckle, (1894 – 1992) was a Republican politician and party chairman in New York State. He was born in Buffalo, New York. During his Chairmanship of the state Republican party in the 1930s, he advanced party discipline to a previously unachieved level, resulting in a dramatic change of fortunes in the success of the GOP statewide.
He was responsible for selecting a New York City District Attorney, Thomas E. Dewey, as the party's candidate for the New York governorship. Dewey won and went on to two unsuccessful runs for the White House in the 1940s. Jaeckle was the campaign chairman of the first run.
Jaeckle also was a successful lawyer in private practice. His law firm, Jaeckle, Fleischmann & Mugel is still in existence.
Jaeckle died in 1992 in Florida. He is interred at Buffalo's Forest Lawn Cemetery.
Jaeckle's political life is discussed in Charles Van Devander's 1944 book, The Big Bosses, and in Richard Norton Smith's 1982 book, Thomas E. Dewey and His Times.
