Jacob H. Gilbert

Jacob H. Gilbert (June 17, 1920 - February 27, 1981) was a United States Representative from New York between 1960 and 1971.

Gilbert was born in Bronx, N.Y., He attended the public schools and graduated from St. John’s College and from St. John's University School of Law. He was admitted to the bar in 1944 and began practicing law in New York City.

Gilbert was appointed an assistant corporation counsel of the city of New York and served from January 1949 to December 1950. He served in the State assembly from 1951 to 1954. He was a member of the State senate from 1955 to March 1960. He was elected as a Democrat to the Eighty-sixth Congress to fill the vacancy caused by the resignation of Isidore Dollinger. He was reelected to the Eighty-seventh and to the four succeeding Congresses, and served from March 8, 1960 to January 3, 1971. He was an unsuccessful candidate for renomination in 1970 to the Ninety-second Congress. He resumed the practice of law and resided in the Bronx, N.Y. where he died. He was interred in Mount Hebron Cemetery, Flushing, N.Y.