Jacob Shower

Jacob Shower was an American politician.
Born in Manchester, Maryland, Shower was a drummer in the War of 1812 and attended private schools at Emmitsburg, Maryland. He graduated from the medical department of the University of [Maryland at Baltimore] in 1825 and commenced the practice of his profession in Carroll County, Maryland.
Shower was a charter member of the first Andrew Jackson Club in the State in 1824. He was a Democratic member of the Maryland [House of Delegates] from 1834 to 1840, clerk of the circuit court of Carroll County from 1842 to 1850, and delegate to the State constitutional convention in 1851. He was elected as a Democrat to the Thirty-third Congress, serving from March 4, 1853, to March 3, 1855. After Congress, he resumed medical practice, and died in Manchester, Maryland.