Charles Jackson (31 May 1775 – 13 December 1855) was an American jurist.
Biography
He was born in
Newburyport, Massachusetts
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. Jackson was the son of Newburyport merchant and
Continental Congress
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Massachusetts delegate
Jonathan Jackson and Hannah Tracy.
He graduated from
Harvard University in 1793, studied law with
Chief Justice Parsons, and began to practice in 1796 at Newburyport. In 1803, he relocated to
Boston, where, associated with
Judge Hubbard, he had a most lucrative practice, probably more lucrative than any other in
New England had been up until that time.
Jackson was judge of the
Massachusetts Supreme Court (1813–24), a member of the State Constitutional Convention of 1820, and one of the commissioners to revise the Massachusetts State Laws in 1833, drawing up the second part of the “Revised Statutes.” He also wrote ''Treatise on the Pleadings and Practice in Real Actions'' in 1828. Jackson was elected a Fellow of the
American Academy of Arts and Sciences in 1817.
Family
He was the brother of
Lowell, Massachusetts industrialist
Patrick Tracy Jackson and
Massachusetts General Hospital
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proponent
James Jackson. His daughter, Amelia Lee Jackson, married physician
Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr., later becoming mother of Associate Justice of the Supreme Court of the United States
Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.
Notes
References
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External links
The Oliver Wendell Holmes Libraryat the
Library of Congress contains the books of Holmes' great-grandfather, Judge Charles Jackson.
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1775 births
1855 deaths
Fellows of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences
Harvard University alumni
Lawyers from Boston
Massachusetts state court judges
People from Newburyport, Massachusetts
People of colonial Massachusetts
19th-century American lawyers