Thomas B. Jackson

Thomas Birdsall Jackson ( born March 24, 1797 in Jerusalem, New York, † April 23, 1881 in Newtown (now Elmhurst ), New York) was an American lawyer and politician. Between 1837 and 1841 he represented the State of New York in the U.S. House of Representatives.

Career

Thomas Birdsall Jackson attended public schools and then worked in agriculture. He studied law. After receiving his admission to the bar he practiced in Jerusalem and Newtown. In 1832 he was elected district judge. Jackson also pursued a political career. He sat 1833-1835 in the New York State Assembly. Last year he moved to Newtown, where he served as justice of the peace. In the congressional elections of 1836, Jackson was a democrat in the first electoral district of New York in the U.S. House of Representatives in Washington DC chosen, where he became the successor of Abel Huntington on March 4, 1837. After a successful re-election in 1838 he gave up a third candidate in the elections in 1840 and retired after the March 3, 1841 from the Congress of. Then he was again engaged in farming. He died on 23 April 1881 in Newtown and was then buried in the Flushing Cemetery.