Samuel D. Jackson

Samuel Dillon Jackson ( * May 28, 1895 in Zanesville, Allen County, Indiana, † March 8, 1951 in Fort Wayne, Indiana ) was an American politician (Democratic Party), who represented the State of Indiana in the U.S. Senate.

Samuel Jackson attended the public schools in Fort Wayne and then the Law School of Indiana University in Indianapolis, where he graduated in 1917; In the same year he was admitted to the Bar Association. Thereafter, he served during World War II as a captain in the infantry, before he practiced law in Fort Wayne since 1919. In 1924 he took over the office of the prosecutor in Allen County, a position he held until 1928.

This year, Jackson wrote his first political office, but was unsuccessful in the election for the House of Representatives of the United States. From 1940 to 1941 he was then Attorney General of Indiana, before he was appointed successor to the late Frederick Van Nuys in the U.S. Senate on January 28, 1944. In the by-election, he did not present himself, so that his time already on 13 November of the same year ended again in the Senate. Also in 1944 he was the Democratic candidate for the governorship of Indiana, but was defeated by Republican Ralph Gates.

After Jackson retired from politics and again worked as a lawyer until he died in Fort Wayne in 1951.