HENRY COUNTY, TN - BIOGRAPHIES - Howell E. Jackson ==================================================================== USGENWEB NOTICE: In keeping with our policy of providing free information on the Internet, data may be used by non-commercial entities, as long as this message remains on all copied material. These electronic pages may NOT be reproduced in any format for profit or for presentation by other persons or organizations. Persons or organizations desiring to use this material for purposes other than stated above must obtain the written consent of the file contributor. The submitter has given permission to the USGenWeb Archives to store the file permanently for free access. This file was contributed for use in the USGenWeb Archives by: Gina Reasoner GReasoner@prodigy.net ==================================================================== TENNESSEE The Volunteer State 1769-1923 The S.J. Clarke Publishing Co., 1923 Volume II, page 160 HOWELL E. JACKSON, a native of Henry County, Tennessee, was born in Paris, Tennessee, April 8th, 1832, the son of Alexander and Mary W. Jackson. He was a man of classical education, having graduated from West Tennessee college in 1848, and afterwards he took a course of two years in the University of Virginia. He studied law in a lawyer's office in Jackson, and entered the Lebanon law school from which he graduated in the year 1853. He served on several occasions on the Supreme Bench by appointment, and was a prominent candidate for Supreme Judge before the Democratic Nominating Convention. He was elected to the State legislature in 1880 on the State credit platform, and while a member of the Legislature was elected to the United States Senate in 1886 to become Circuit Judge of the Sixth Circuit of the United States to succeed John Baxter. He was an appointee of President Cleveland. During the administration of President Harrison he was appointed a Justice of the Supreme Court and held that position until he died at Nashville on August 8, 1895. The Legislature which elected Jackson to the Senate was very closely divided between the Republicans and Democrats. The Republicans supported the Hon. Horace Maynard and the Democratic vote was divided between Gen. Bate and several other candidates. Maynard was one vote short of an election, and the Republicans finally gave up all hope of electing him, and at the suggestion of Senator R.R. Butler, Jackson was brought forward as a candidate by the State credit wing of the Democratic party, and in the balloting was supported by the Republicans and this elected him. In the Forty-ninth Congress the Senators were Howell E. Jackson and Isham G. Harris and Washington C. Whitthorne, elected in place for Howell E. Jackson.