Howell Edmunds Jackson
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| Associate Justice of the Supreme Court of the United States Term in office |
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| March 4, 1893 – August 8, 1895 | |
| Preceded by | Lucius Quintus Cincinnatus Lamar |
| Succeeded by | Rufus Wheeler Peckham |
| Nominated by | Benjamin Harrison |
| Born | April 8, 1832 Paris, Tennessee |
| Died | August 8, 1895 |
Howell Edmunds Jackson (April 8, 1832–August 8, 1895) was an American jurist and politician.
Jackson was born in Paris, Tennessee. He moved to Jackson, Tennessee with his parents at the age of eight. He graduated from West Tennessee College in 1849, the University of Virginia in 1854, and the Cumberland School of Law in 1856. Upon admission to the bar, he practiced first in Jackson and then relocated to Memphis where he married Sophia Malloy.
Although opposed to secession, he served the Confederacy as a Receiver of Sequestered Property during the Civil War. After the fall of Memphis in 1862, he and his family spent the remainder of the war in LaGrange, Georgia.
After the war, Jackson practiced law in Memphis until 1874. During this time he lost his wife during a yellow fever epidemic in 1873 and subsequently married Mary Harding. He returned to Jackson in 1874 and served on the Court of Arbitration for West Tennessee on two occasions.
He was elected to the Tennessee House of Representatives as a Democrat in 1880. After taking his seat, a bitter fight ensued over the election of a U.S. Senator by the Tennessee General Assembly. Jackson was promoted as a compromise candidate and with the support of both Democrats and Republicans, succeeded on the first ballot.
He took office on March 4, 1881 and served for five years, during which time he supported issues such as civil service reforms, creation of an Interstate Commerce Commission, and restrictions of Chinese immigration.
Jackson resigned from the Senate in April 14, 1886 to accept appointment by President Grover Cleveland to the U.S. Circuit Court for the Sixth Circuit. He served with distinction and wrote notable opinions on the Interstate Commerce Act and the Sherman Anti-Trust Act.
He served on the Sixth Circuit until 1893, when President Benjamin Harrison, despite the difference in their respective political parties, nominated him to be an Associate Justice of the Supreme Court of the United States upon the death of Lucius Q. C. Lamar.
Jackson contracted tuberculosis shortly after joining the Court and died in 1895 after serving for only two and one-half years--one of the shortest terms of any Supreme Court justice. He is buried in Nashville's Mt. Olivet Cemetery.
[edit] References
- Biography at the Biographical Directory of the United States Congress
- "Howell Edmunds Jackson". Webster's American Biographies. (1975). G. & C. Merriam Company.
- Harvey Gresham Hudspeth, HOWELL EDMUNDS JACKSON, 1832-1895, Tennessee Encyclopedia of History and Culture.
- Howell Jackson on Find-A-Grave
| Preceded by New seat |
Judge of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit 1891-1893 |
Succeeded by Horace Harmon Lurton |
| Preceded by Lucius Quintus Cincinnatus Lamar |
Associate Justice of the Supreme Court of the United States March 4, 1893 – August 8, 1895 |
Succeeded by Rufus Wheeler Peckham |
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| 1893: | S.J. Field | J.M. Harlan | H. Gray | S. Blatchford | D.J. Brewer | H.B. Brown | Geo. Shiras, Jr. | H.E. Jackson | |
| 1894–1895: | S.J. Field | J.M. Harlan | H. Gray | D.J. Brewer | H.B. Brown | Geo. Shiras, Jr. | H.E. Jackson | E.D. White | |
