James M. Jackson

James Monroe Jackson ( born December 3, 1825 Parkersburg, Wood County, 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 U.S. House of Representatives.

Career

James Jackson was born in 1825 in Parkersburg, which at that time was still part of Virginia and since 1863 is part of the State of West Virginia. After a good primary education, he attended Princeton College until 1845. After a subsequent study of law and its made ​​in 1847 admitted to the bar he began in Parkersburg to work in his new profession. Between 1856 and 1860 he was district attorney in Wood County. Jackson became a member of the Democratic Party, for which he sat in 1870 and 1871 in the House of Representatives from West Virginia. In 1872 he was a member of a meeting to revise the State Constitution. From 1873 to 1888 was Judge Jackson in the fifth judicial district of West Virginia.

1888 Jackson was selected in the fourth district of West Virginia in the U.S. House of Representatives in Washington, where he became the successor of Charles E. Hogg on March 4, 1889. His election but was challenged by Republican Charles Brooks Smith. Once this challenge was upheld, Jackson was forced to resign his seat in Congress to Smith on February 3, 1890. After retiring from Congress Jackson worked from 1891 until his death in February 1901 as a judge of the criminal court in Wood County. James Jackson was the cousin of William Thomas Bland, who represented 1919-1921 the state of Missouri in the U.S. House of Representatives.

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