John Jay Jackson, Jr.
John Jay Jackson Jr. (* August 4, 1824 in Parkersburg, Virginia (now West Virginia), † September 2, 1907 in Atlantic City, New Jersey) was an American lawyer and politician ( Republican).
Career
John Jay Jackson Jr. graduated in 1845 from Princeton University. He studied law and was admitted to the bar in 1847 in Virginia. Jackson was 1847-1848 worked as a practicing lawyer in Wirt County. He was 1848 Attorney ( Prosecuting Attorney ) of Wirt County and in the following two years prosecutor ( Commonwealth Attorney ) of Ritchie County. Subsequently, he was until 1851 worked as a lawyer in Wood County. Jackson also decided to pursue a career in politics. He was 1851-1855 Member of the House of Representatives from Virginia. Then he returned to Parkersburg, where he pursued his career as a lawyer until 1861.
On July 26, 1861, U.S. President Abraham Lincoln nominated him for a seat on the United States District Court for the Western District of Virginia, there to fill the vacancy that was created by the passage of John White Brockenbrough to the Confederate States. Jackson was confirmed on August 3, 1861 by the U.S. Senate and received on the same day his appointment. At this time, Virginia and West Virginia were still a single state. Although the secession of Virginia refused to start of the Civil War, the western part of Virginia from the United States, now dropped from this part of Virginia. This area voted largely in line with the existing Western District of Virginia. West Virginia was only officially recognized on 20 June 1863 as the State. By resolution 13 Stat. 124 was on June 11, 1864 United States District Court for the Western District of Virginia to the United States District Court for the District of West Virginia. The parts of the Western District, which were not part of West Virginia were combined with the Eastern District and formed as a single District of Virginia. After 1864 John Curtiss Underwood was the only federal judge in Virginia. It existed 1864-1871 no Western District of Virginia. Alexander Rives was the first federal judge of a newly formed Western Districts after the war. Jackson was the newly formed United States District Court for the District of West Virginia granted. In this position, he decided in 1870 in favor of ex- Confederates in West Virginia that they conceded the privilege to choose among the 15th Amendment. On 1 July 1901, the District of West Virginia was divided. It was the United States District Court for the Northern District of West Virginia and the United States District Court for the Southern District of West Virginia. Jackson was the Northern District allocated, where he worked until his resignation on 15 March 1905. As a result of his long service of 44 years as a federal judge Jackson was known as "the Iron Judge".
Family
John Jay Jackson Jr. was the great-grandson of U.S. Representative George Jackson (1757-1831) and the grandson of U.S. Representative John George Jackson ( 1777-1825 ). He was the son of Emma G. Beeson (1800-1842) and Brigadier General John Jay Jackson senior ( 1800-1877 ). His father took part as a delegate in 1861 to the so-called Wheeling Convention, in the founding of the state of West Virginia was decided. His brothers were Jacob B. Jackson (1829-1893), the sixth U.S. governor of West Virginia, and U.S. Representative James M. Jackson ( 1825-1901 ). The Jackson Memorial Fountain in Parkersburg is dedicated to the Jackson family.