Oscar Lawrence Jackson (September 2, 1840 – February 16, 1920) was a

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member of the

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from

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and the commander of an

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in the

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during the

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Biography

Oscar L. Jackson was born in

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to Samuel Stewart and Nancy (Mitchell) Jackson. He attended the common schools, Tansy Hill Select School, and Darlington Academy. He later taught school in

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. During the Civil War, Jackson served as an officer in the

from 1861 to 1865. He entered the service as the captain of Company H of the Sixty-third Regiment, Ohio Volunteer Infantry, and later received promotions of major, lieutenant colonel, and colonel by

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after the war. He was shot in the face by a

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soldier with a Squirrel Rifle and left for dead in the 2nd Battle of Corinth. After the war, Jackson studied law, was admitted to the bar in 1867 and commenced practice in

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. He served as district attorney from 1868 to 1871. He was a member of the commission to codify laws and devise a plan for the government of cities of Pennsylvania in 1877 and 1878. He published a book The fiery trail : a Union officer's account of Sherman's last campaigns Jackson was elected as a Republican to the Forty-ninth and Fiftieth Congresses. He was an unsuccessful candidate for renomination in

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. He resumed the practice of law in New Castle and was a delegate to the

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. Oscar L. Jackson died in New Castle in 1920. Interment was in Greenwood Cemetery.

References

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