James Jackson (politician, 1819)

James Jackson

James Jackson (born October 8, 1819 in Jefferson County , Georgia , †  January 13, 1887 in Atlanta , Georgia) was an American politician . Between 1857 and 1861 he represented the state of Georgia in the US House of Representatives .

Career

James Jackson was a grandson of Governor James Jackson (1757-1806), who also represented Georgia in both houses of Congress between 1789 and 1806 . He was also a nephew of Jabez Young Jackson , who was a Georgia Congressman from 1835 to 1839. After a good primary education, the younger James Jackson studied at the University of Georgia in Athens until 1837 . After a subsequent law degree and his admission as a lawyer in 1839, he began to work in Athens in his new profession. In 1842 he was employed in the administration of the State Senate . From 1846 to 1859, Jackson served as a judge in the Superior Court .

Politically, he was a member of the Democratic Party . Between 1845 and 1849 he was a member of the Georgia House of Representatives . In the congressional election of 1856 he was elected to the US House of Representatives in Washington, DC in the sixth constituency of Georgia , where he succeeded Howell Cobb on March 4, 1857 . After re-election in 1858, he could remain in Congress until his resignation on January 23, 1861 . This time was determined by the events in the immediate run-up to the civil war . Jackson's resignation came after his home state Georgia left the Union to join the Confederation .

Between 1861 and 1865 Jackson served in the Confederate Army as a Judge Advocat . After the war he moved to Macon , where he practiced as a lawyer between 1865 and 1875. In 1875 he was appointed as a judge on the Supreme Court of Georgia in Atlanta. From 1879 until his death in 1887 he was Chief Justice of the latter, succeeding Hiram Warner .

Web links

• James Jackson in the Biographical Directory of the United States Congress (English)
• James Jackson in the database of Find a Grave (English)