Early Jewish Idaho Officeholders

Early Jewish Idaho Officeholders

 

 

State/Territorial Legislators

 

Charles Himrod (1842-1920), Territorial House, 1872, and Territorial Council, 1886.

County Commissioners

 

Meyers Cohn  (1844-1927), Oneida, 1908-1912.

 

Charles Himrod, Ada, 1905-1908.

 

Treasurers

 

 Charles Himrod, Ada County, 1870-71, 1881-1882.

 

Henry Seligman (1848-1876), Silver City, 1875-1876.

 

Lazare Weil (1848-1912), Boise, 1875-1867, 1878-1879.

 

Frederick Epstein (1851-1910), Boise, 1877-1878.

 

City Council Members

 

Charles Goldbaum (1836-1888), Boise, 1869.

 

Frederick Epstein, Boise, 1880-1881.

 

Nathan Falk, Boise, 1881-1885.

 

Charles Himrod, Boise, 1891-1893.

 

Max Mayfield (1870-1933), Boise, 1901-1903.

 

Leo Grumbaum (1864-1946), Boise, 1903-1905.

 

Ralph Louis (1862-1941), Idaho Falls, 1917-1918.        

 

Source

• Mark Rutzik, Breaking New Ground: The Untold Story of Early America’s Jewish Electoral Pioneers – 1788 to 1920, 2025.

Mark Rutzick is the curator of this Jewish Officeholders exhibit.