Jacob L. Milligan

During World War I, he enlisted in the Sixth Regiment, Missouri Infantry, on April 8, 1917.

He served as captain of Company G, One Hundred and Fortieth Infantry Regiment, Thirty-fifth Division, from August 4, 1917, to May 15, 1919.

Milligan was elected as a Democrat to the Sixty-sixth Congress to fill the vacancy caused by the resignation of Joshua W. Alexander and served from February 14, 1920, to March 3, 1921.

Milligan was elected to the Sixty-eighth and to the five succeeding Congresses (March 4, 1923 – January 3, 1935).

Jacob Milligan resumed the practice of law and served as president of Kansas City Police Board from 1949 to 1950.