Frank D. Jackson

Frank Darr Jackson ( born January 26, 1854 in Arcade, Wyoming County, New York, † November 16, 1938 in Redlands, California ) was an American politician ( Republican) and from 1894 to 1896 the 15th Governor of the State of Iowa.

Early years and political rise

Jackson attended after elementary school, the Iowa Agricultural College, from which today's Iowa State University has emerged. He then studied at the Law School of the University of Iowa law. After qualifying as a lawyer in 1875, he began practicing law in Greene.

His first public office from Jackson practiced in the administration of the Senate of Iowa. Between 1885 and 1891 he was Secretary of State in Iowa. Finally, he was elected as a candidate of his party against the incumbent Horace Boies as the new governor of his state in 1893.

Governor of Iowa

Jackson took up his new post on January 11, 1894. In his two-year tenure, he managed to get approved by the Legislature additional funds to finance his administration. A very controversial issue at that time was the Prohibition Act of Iowa. The governor adopted in 1895 the so-called mulct law, which left it to the local authorities, the prohibition question to decide on their level. Jackson sought no second term in 1895 and therefore different on January 16, 1896 from his office.

After the end of his governorship Jackson withdrew from politics. He was President of the Royal Life life insurance. Then he spent his retirement in California. He is also passed in 1938. Governor Jackson was married to Anna F. Brock, with whom he had four children.