Jacob Marks (June 24, 1861 – March 20, 1965) was a Jewish-American lawyer, politician, and judge from New York.
He was counsel in many leading cases involving important questions on commercial, corporation, negligence, and real estate law, and was involved in a number of contested election cases.
[3] In the convention, he was the leading advocate for the Extension of the System of Trial by Jury and introduced a constitutional amendment that provided for the constitutional right to a jury trial in proceedings in which the Legislature has the power to abridge that right.
In 1898, Mayor Robert Anderson Van Wyck appointed him an Inspector of Public Schools in New York City for a four-year term.
[6] Marks was a member of the Montefiore Home, the YMHA, the Freemasons, the Royal Arcanum, the Hebrew Orphan Asylum, and the Educational Alliance.