William Terry Jackson

William Terry Jackson ( born December 29, 1794 in Chester, New York, † September 15, 1882 in Montour Falls, New York) was an American lawyer and politician. Between 1849 and 1851 he represented the State of New York in the U.S. House of Representatives.

Career

William Terry Jackson attended community schools and later studied surveying. Between 1813 and 1815 he taught in Goshen. This period was overshadowed by the British -American War. He then worked as a surveyor and later went commercial shops in Chester and Oswego in New York as well as in Bermerville in Sussex County ( New Jersey ) to. In 1825 he moved to Havana in Chemung County (now Township of Montour in Schuyler County). He went there to commercial transactions. Between 1836 and 1838 he was a justice of the peace. He became in 1839 judge of the Court of Common Pleas and General Sessions in Chemung County - a post which he held until 1846. He was also Justice of the Peace in the Town of Catharine.

Politically he belonged to the Whig party. In the congressional elections of 1848 for the 31 Congress, Jackson was in the 26th electoral district of New York in the U.S. House of Representatives in Washington DC chosen, where he became the successor of William T. Lawrence on March 4, 1849. He retired after March 3, 1851 from the Congress.

After his conference time he went to commercial transactions. He died on September 15, 1882 in Montour Falls. His body was then buried in the same cemetery.