Samuel D. Jackson

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Samuel Dillon Jackson

United States Senator from Indiana
In office January 28, 1944 – November 13, 1944
Preceded by	Frederick Van Nuys
Succeeded by	William E. Jenner
Personal details
Born	(1895-05-28)May 28, 1895 Zanesville, Indiana
Died	March 8, 1951(1951-03-08) (aged 55) Fort Wayne, Indiana
Political party	Democratic

Samuel Dillon Jackson (May 28, 1895 – March 8, 1951) was a United States Senator from Indiana. Born near Zanesville, Indiana, he attended the public schools of Fort Wayne and graduated a from predecessor of the now Indiana University Robert H. McKinney School of Law in Indianapolis in 1917,^[1] gaining admission to the bar the same year. During the First World War, he served as a captain of infantry from 1917 to 1919, and engaged in the practice of law at Fort Wayne in 1919. He was prosecuting attorney of Allen County from 1924 to 1928. He ran unsuccessfully as a Democrat for election in 1928 to the Seventy-first Congress, and was attorney general of Indiana from 1940 to 1941. On January 28, 1944, he was appointed as a Democrat to the U.S. Senate to fill the vacancy caused by the death of Frederick Van Nuys and served from January 28, 1944, to November 13, 1944, when a duly elected successor qualified. Jackson was not a candidate for election to fill the vacancy, and was an unsuccessful Democratic candidate for Governor of Indiana in 1944. He resumed the practice of law, and died in Fort Wayne in 1951; interment was in Lindenwood Cemetery.

References

Samuel D. Jackson at the Biographical Directory of the United States Congress

United States Senate
Preceded by Frederick Van Nuys	U.S. Senator (Class 3) from Indiana 1944 Served alongside: Raymond E. Willis	Succeeded by William E. Jenner

v t e United States Senators from Indiana

Class 1	Noble Hanna Tipton White Bright Wright Turpie T. Hendricks Pratt McDonald Harrison Turpie Beveridge Kern New Ralston Robinson Minton Willis Jenner Hartke Lugar Donnelly

Class 3	Taylor W. Hendricks Smith Hannegan Whitcomb Cathcart Pettit Fitch Lane Morton Voorhees Fairbanks Hemenway Shively Taggart Watson Van Nuys Jackson Jenner Capehart Bayh II Quayle Coats Bayh III Coats

Authority control	WorldCat VIAF: 136452347 LCCN: no2010109376

Persondata
Name	Jackson, Samuel D.
Alternative names
Short description	American politician
Date of birth	May 28, 1895
Place of birth	Zanesville, Indiana
Date of death	March 8, 1951
Place of death	Fort Wayne, Indiana

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