George Jackson (31 December 1856 – 12 February 1938) was a member of the
Queensland Legislative Assembly
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.
Biography
Jackson was born in
Manchester
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,
England
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, the son of James Jackson and his wife Hannah (née Hilton). He married Mary Hannah Welch at
Charters Towers
Charters Towers is a rural town in the Charters Towers Region, Queensland, Australia. It is by road south-west from Townsville on the Flinders Highway. During the last quarter of the 19th century, the town boomed as the rich gold deposits under ...
in 1878.
[
He died in ]New Farm
New Farm is an inner northern riverside suburb in the City of Brisbane, Queensland, Australia. In the , New Farm had a population of 12,542 people.
Geography
The suburb is located 2 kilometres east of the Brisbane CBD on a large bend of the ...
in February 1938 and was buried in the South Brisbane Cemetery
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.[Deceased Search]
— Brisbane City Council Grave Location Search. Retrieved 26 March 2016.
Public career
Jackson held the seat of Kennedy
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in the Queensland Legislative Assembly from 1893 until his defeat in 1909. He was the Chairman of Committees 1903-1907 and the Secretary for Mines and Public Works in 1909.[
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References
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Members of the Queensland Legislative Assembly
1856 births
1938 deaths
Burials in South Brisbane Cemetery
Australian Labor Party members of the Parliament of Queensland
British emigrants to the Colony of Queensland