William Humphreys Jackson

William Humphreys Jackson ( * October 15, 1839 in Salisbury, Maryland, † April 3, 1915 ) was an American politician. Between 1901 and 1909 he represented two times the state of Maryland in the U.S. House of Representatives.

Career

William Jackson attended the common schools and worked in agriculture. Then he went into the lumber business. At the same time he proposed as a member of the Republican Party launched a political career. In the congressional elections of 1900, he was the first electoral district of Maryland in the U.S. House of Representatives in Washington DC chosen, where he became the successor of Josiah Kerr on March 4, 1901. After a re-election he was able to initially complete two terms in Congress, 1905 to March 3. In 1904, he defeated Democrat Thomas Alexander Smith.

Two years later he was back in 1906 to win in the elections of the year his old seat in Congress and replace Smith again. Since he lost in 1908 against James Harry Covington, he could spend another term in Congress until March 3, 1909. After the end of his time in the U.S. House of Representatives William Jackson again worked in the timber industry. He died on April 3, 1915 in his hometown of Salisbury. His son William Purnell Jackson (1868-1939) was a U.S. Senator for Maryland.