Biographical Sketches:  F. M. JACKSON


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The Blue Book of the State of Wisconsin Compiled and Published under
the direction of J. D. Beck, Commissioner of Labor and Industrial
Statistics 1907.

The Wisconsin Blue Book. VII. Biographical Sketches. The Wisconsin
Legislature. Assembly, p. 1139

HERMAN L. KERN, Speaker; C. E. SHAFFER, Chief Clerk; W. S. IRVINE,
Sergeant-at-Arms.

The assembly consists of 100 members. They are chosen biennially and
receive $500 for their services during their term. The speaker is
chosen by the members and receives an additional $500 for his services
as speaker. The assembly of 1907 contains 76 republicans, 19
democrats, and 5 social democrats.

Clark County. (pp. 1143-1144) One District. Population, 1900 - 25,848.

F. M. JACKSON (Rep.) was born on a farm in Green county, Wisconsin,
and attended the district school until 1886 when he entered the high
school at Brodhead. In 1889 he graduated from the Brodhead high school
and removed to Monroe in the same county. In the fall of 1889 he
entered the University of Wisconsin from which he graduated in June
1893. Mr. Jackson was elected principal of the Colby high school and
held that position for eight years, spending his spare time studying
law. He quit teaching school in 1901 and entered the law office of R.
B. Salter in Colby, Wisconsin. In the winter of 1902 he took a course
of law lectures in the Illinois College of Law at Chicago and passed
the state bar examination in April 1902. The same year he was
nominated and elected district attorney of Clark county and was re-
elected in 1904. In 1906 Mr. Jackson was nominated for member of
assembly for the Clark county district and was elected, receiving
2,494 votes against 624 for James Richmond (Dem.).