title: Jacob Hufty
text: # Jacob Hufty
  
  Jacob Hufty (1750 - May 20, 1814) was a U.S. Representative from New Jersey, serving three terms from 1809 to 1814.
  
  ## Early life and education
  
  Born in New Jersey in 1750, Hufty was a blacksmith by trade. He served as a private in the State militia. Freeholder for Salem Township, New Jersey, 1792.
  
  Hufty was elected overseer of the poor and collector of Salem Township, 1793. County justice of Salem County, New Jersey, 1797, county judge in 1798, and county justice and judge, 1804. He served as sheriff 1801–1804. Freeholder of Salem Township 1800–1804. He was a director of the Board of Chosen Freeholders, 1801. He served as a member of the New Jersey Legislative Council (now the New Jersey Senate) in 1804, 1806, and 1807. He was a county collector from 1805 to 1808. He served as judge of Orphans Court from 1805 to 1808. He also served as surrogate in 1808.
  
  ## Congress
  
  Hufty was elected as a Democratic-Republican to the Eleventh and Twelfth Congresses and as a Federalist to the Thirteenth Congress (March 4, 1809 – May 20, 1814).
  
  ## Death
  
  He died on May 20, 1814, in Salem, New Jersey. He was interred in St. John's Episcopal Cemetery, Salem.
  
  