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Edwin Frederick Jaeckle (October 27, 1894 – May 14, 1992) was a Republican politician and party chairman in New York State during the 1930s. During his tenure as chairman, Jaeckle enforced strict adherence to party discipline, which significantly bolstered the party's standing in the state. As chairman, Jaeckle exerted an outsized influence on the state's political landscape. In Charles Van Devander's 1944 book ''The Big Bosses'', Jaeckle was portrayed as controlling the state legislature and helping shape and execute the party's platform. According to the book, the Albany Legislative Correspondents' Association included in its annual satirical show a song with the refrain: "You've gotta get Jaeckle's O.K." 〔Charles W. Van Devander, The Big Bosses (N.Y.: Howell, Soskin 1944).〕 Jaeckle also sometimes played kingmaker; for instance, he selected New York City District Attorney Thomas E. Dewey as the Republican candidate for the New York governorship. Dewey won the race and served three terms as governor; Jaeckle is credited with helping lift him onto the national stage.〔(Jaeckle's New York Times obituary )〕 Dewey later lost two unsuccessful campaigns for the White House in the 1940s. Jaeckle was Dewey's campaign chairman during his first presidential run. "'I was not Dewey's man,' Mr. Jaeckle recalled in an interview. 'Nor was he mine. Events brought us together. We were a strong combination. There was mutual respect. I was like a trainer with a good horse.'" 〔The New York Times, "Edwin Jaeckle, 97, Lawyer and Backer of Thomas Dewey<" May 15, 1992.〕 Jaeckle attributed his success as Republican Party leader in New York to integrity, tight fiscal control and tight control of his office holders.〔Buffalo Magazine, January 1974〕 He also was a successful lawyer in private practice. His law firm, (Jaeckle, Fleischmann & Mugel ) is still in existence, although on September 30, 2015 it announced that, as of January 1, 2016, it will cease to exist. The remnants of the partnership were joined into a Syracuse, N.Y.-based firm; the Jaeckle name will not be retained.〔The Buffalo News, October 1, 2015.〕 Jaeckle died in Florida and is buried at Buffalo's Forest Lawn Cemetery. ==Early life== Jaeckle was born in Buffalo of pioneer stock to Jacob Jaeckle and Mary Marx Jaeckle, who themselves were born in Buffalo in the 1850s. His grandparents were Germans who had arrived in Buffalo during the great migration of the 1840s. His father was a carpenter who eventually became a general building contractor. Among other projects, Jaeckle's father literally built the family church, St. Peter's United Evangelical, completed in 1877. For years the Jaeckles lived in the house Jacob built at 26 Lemon St. in the "Fruit Belt" of citrus-named streets in the German Near East Side of Buffalo. Mary Marx had grown up in that neighborhood, and her father had a grocery store on Mortimer Street. "They were just good hearty German-American people who worked like hell," Jaeckle recalled in 1980 in a Buffalo News article.〔Buffalo News, March 2, 1980, "Ed Jaeckle at 85: A Lifetime in the Arena of Politics and Power."〕 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Edwin Jaeckle」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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