George Jackson (Virginia politician)

George Jackson ( * January 9, 1757 in Cecil County, Maryland, † May 17 1831 in Zanesville, Ohio ) was an American politician. Between 1795 and 1803 he represented two times the state of Virginia in the U.S. House of Representatives.

Career

George Jackson was the father of Congressman John George Jackson (1777-1825) and Edward B. Jackson ( 1793-1826 ). He grew up during the British colonial period. In 1769, he moved to Fort Jackson in what is now West Virginia. He joined the American Revolution and took part as a colonel in the Revolutionary War. After a subsequent law degree in 1784 and its recent approval as a lawyer, he started in Clarksburg to work in this profession. He was also Justice of the Peace in 1784. At the same time he began a political career. Between 1785 and 1791, and again in 1794 he sat in the House of Representatives from Virginia. In 1788 he was a delegate to the meeting at which the state of Virginia ratified the Constitution of the United States. In the 1790s he joined, founded by Thomas Jefferson Democratic- Republican Party.

In the congressional elections of 1794, Jackson was selected in the third electoral district of Virginia in the U.S. House of Representatives, where he became the successor of Joseph Neville on March 4, 1795. Until March 3, 1797 he was initially able to complete a term in Congress. Then, his mandate was to James Machir of the Federalist Party. In the elections of 1798 he was able to regain his mandate and spend after a re-election in 1800 until March 3, 1803 two further terms in Congress. During this time, the new federal capital of Washington DC was related.

1802 abandoned Jackson on another candidacy. Around the year 1806 he moved to Zanesville, Ohio, where he worked in agriculture. Between 1809 and 1812 he was a delegate in the House of Representatives from Ohio; 1817 to 1819 he was a member of the local state Senate. George Jackson died on 17 May 1831 in Zanesville.