William Purnell Jackson

William Purnell Jackson ( born January 11, 1868 in Salisbury, Maryland, † March 7, 1939 ibid ) was an American politician who belonged to the U.S. Senate for the Republican Party.

William P. Jackson, whose father William Humphreys Jackson was also politically active and was sitting 1901-1909 for Maryland in the U.S. House of Representatives, attended the public schools in Wicomico County and a private school in Dover. In 1887 he worked in the lumber industry.

In 1908, Jackson was elected to the Republican National Committee. After the death of U.S. Senator Isidor Rayner on December 25, 1912 was Jackson's appointment as his successor in Congress. He was Chairman of the Committee to control expenditure in the State Department ( Committee on Expenditures in the Department of State ). In the by-election to the Senate seat Jackson did not appear to, so he retired again from the Senate on January 28, 1914. He was succeeded by Blair Lee.

Jackson went into the episode again about his business, but was also active in politics and still functioned from 1918 to 1920 as Minister of Finance (State treasurer ) of Maryland. He was also president of the Salisbury National Bank and Director of the Railway Company Baltimore, Chesapeake & Atlantic.

1939 William Jackson died in his hometown of Salisbury. That there in 1893 he built the house was recorded as Sen. William P. Jackson House in 1976 on the list of National Historic Landmarks, but demolished in the same year.