James M. Jackson

Bust of James M. Jackson in Parkersburg

James Monroe Jackson (born December 3, 1825 in Parkersburg , Virginia , † February 14, 1901 ) was an American politician . Between 1889 and 1890 he represented the fourth electoral district of the state of West Virginia in the US House of Representatives .

Career

James Jackson was born in Parkersburg in 1825, which was then still part of Virginia and has been part of the state of West Virginia since 1863. After a good elementary school education, he attended Princeton College until 1845 . After studying law and being admitted to the bar in 1847, he began to work in his new profession in Parkersburg. Between 1856 and 1860 he was a district attorney in Wood County . Jackson became a member of the Democratic Party , for which he sat in the West Virginia House of Representatives in 1870 and 1871 . In 1872 he was a member of an assembly to revise the state constitution. From 1873 to 1888, Jackson served as a judge in the West Virginia Fifth Judicial District.

In 1888 Jackson was elected to the US House of Representatives in Washington, DC , in the fourth district of West Virginia , where he succeeded Charles E. Hogg on March 4, 1889 . His choice was challenged by Republican Charles Brooks Smith . After this challenge was granted, Jackson had to cede his seat in Congress on February 3, 1890 to Smith. After retiring from Congress, Jackson served as a criminal court judge in Wood County from 1891 until his death in February 1901. James Jackson was the cousin of William Thomas Bland , who represented the state of Missouri in the US House of Representatives between 1919 and 1921 .

Web links

• James M. Jackson in the Biographical Directory of the United States Congress (English)

• James M. Jackson in the database of Find a Grave (English)