Highlights of The Jaeckle Political Career
- (1916) Wins a seat on the Erie County Board Supervisors from the old 11th Ward.
- (1918) Wins re-election but resigns in January 1919 to accept the position of Clerk of the Board of Supervisors.
- (1926) Wins a seat on the State Republican Committee.
- (1928) Named Erie County collector of taxes.
- (1935) Elected Erie County Republican chairman.
- (1937) Runs for mayor of Buffalo and loses to Thomas F. Holling by 1,427 votes.
- (1938) Leads a group of GOP reformers in nominating Thomas E. Dewey for governor in an unsuccessful attempt to win the statehouse.
- (1940) Elected New York State Republican Charmian, controlling the largest bloc of delegates at national conventions.
- (1940) Heads Dewey's unsuccessful presidential campaign. Wendell Willkie is his party's nominee and loses to incumbent President Roosevelt.
- (1942) Dewey wins the governorship and Jaeckle is put in charge of shepherding Dewey's legislative agenda.
- (1944) Leads drive for Dewey presidential nomination by acclamation at Chicago convention. Dewey loses wartime election to incumbent Roosevelt.
- (1944) Quits as state GOP chairman 10 days after the Dewey defeat.
- (1947) Dewey and Jaeckle reconcile and Dewey eyes another run at the White House.
- (1948) Accompanies Dewey on the campaign train throughout the fall, but in November, Dewey is upset by Truman.
- (1948) Shortly after the election, Jaeckle retires from politics to work full-time at his private law practice.
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