J. A. Yordy

Jacob A. Yordy (died June 29, 1874)[1] was a state senator in Alabama. He served two terms in the Alabama House of Representatives from 1868–1872.[2]

He was born in and grew up in South Annville Township, Pennsylvania.[1] He lived in Ohio before the Civil War.[3] He served with Company I of the Ohio "regikent volunteers".[1] He was one of the Northerners serving in the south during the Reconstruction era.[4] He was a Republican.[3] He wrote a message about election disturbances.[5]

John T. Foster preceded him as a state senator. Yordy served from 1868 to 1872 and was succeeded by William G. Little Jr.[6] He represented Sumter County, Alabama.[1] He was one of the signatories of a letter to the U.S. Senate protesting the election of George Goldthwaite. The letter said Goldthwaite did not receive a majority of votes from legitimately elected state legislators.[7]

He was said to be a U.S. customs house employee in Mobile during testimony about officials holding more than one public office at the same time.[8]

Sarah Woolfolk Wiggins wrote "J. A. Yordy and Alabama Ostracism of Republicans".published in the July 1967 edition of the Alabama Review.[9]

He died in Mobile, Alabama June 29, 1874.[1]