mayor of Rochester, N.Y., in 1925. His political career is notable for his staunch opposition to the Immigration Act of 1924. Nothing is more un-American. Nothing could be more dangerous, in a land the Constitution of which says that all men are created equal, than to write into our law a theory which puts one race above another, which stamps one group of people as superior and another as inferior. The fact that it is camouflaged in a maze of statistics will not protect this Nation from the evil consequences of such an unscientific, un-American, wicked philosophy. After Politics Jacobstein engaged in banking in Rochester, N.Y., from 1929 to 1936 and in 1936 became chairman of the board of the Rochester Business Institute. He was a member of the Brookings Institution staff from 1939 to 1946 and economic counsel in the legislative reference service of the Library of Congress from 1947 until his retirement May 31, 1952. Jacobstein resided in Rochester, N.Y., until his death there on April 18, 1963 and was laid to rest at Mount Hope Cemetery. See also List of Jewish members of the United States Congress References External links Sources Biographical Directory of the United States Congress Federal Reserve Bank of Minneapolis Rose Jacobstein (sister), Jacobstein Family History [unpublished family archive], after 1946. 1880 births 1963 deaths Burials at Mount Hope Cemetery (Rochester) Columbia University alumni University of North Dakota faculty Jewish members of the United States House of Representatives Democratic Party members of the United States House of Representatives from New York (state) 20th-century American politicians People from the Lower East Side