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History and Government—Congressional Biographies—VirginiaJohn George JACKSON
(1777-1825)
JACKSON, John George, (son
of George Jackson, brother of Edward Brake Jackson, and grandfather
of William Thomas Bland), a Representative from Virginia; born in
Buckhannon, Va. (now West Virginia), September 22, 1777; moved with
his parents to Clarksburg in 1784; received an English training and
became a civil engineer; appointed surveyor of public lands of what
is now the State of Ohio in 1793; member of the Virginia house of
delegates 1798-1801; elected as a Republican to the Eighth and to
the three succeeding Congresses and served from March 4, 1803, to
September 28, 1810, when he resigned; while in Congress fought a
duel with Joseph Pearson, of North Carolina, and on the second fire
was wounded in the hip; member of the State house of delegates in
1811 and 1812; brigadier general of Virginia Militia in 1812;
elected as a Republican to the Thirteenth and Fourteenth Congresses
(March 4, 1813-March 3, 1817); declined to be a candidate for
reelection in 1816 to the Fifteenth Congress; appointed United
States district judge for the western district of Virginia in 1819
and served until his death in Clarksburg, Va. (now West Virginia),
March 28, 1825; interment in the Old Jackson Cemetery.
Bibliography
Brown, Stephen W. Voice of the New West: John G. Jackson: His
Life and Times. Macon, Ga.: Mercer University Press, 1985.
Source: Biographical Directory of the United States Congress, 1771-Present
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