OVERVIEW:

FULL NAME:
Howell Edmunds Jackson

BORN:
April 8, 1832
Paris, Tennessee

DIED:
August 8, 1895 (age 63)
Nashville, Tennessee

EDUCATION:
University of Virginia (1854)
West Tennessee College (now Union University, Jackson, Tennessee), A.B., 1849
Cumberland School of Law, LL.B., 1856

POLITICAL PARTY:
Democrat

HIGHLIGHTS:
1840:
Moved to Jackson, Tennessee 
1856:
Admitted to the Bar,
Began Practicing Law in Jackson, Tennessee
1859:
Moved to Memphis, Tennessee 
1861-1864:
Receiver of Alien Property, West Tennessee, Confederate States of America 
1874:
Returned to Jackson, Tennessee 
1875-1877:
Special Judge, Court of Arbitration for Western Tennessee
1880-1881;
Tennessee  State Representative
1881-1886:
U.S. Senator (D-TN)
1886-1893:
Judge, U.S. Circuit Courts for the Sixth Circuit 
1891-1893:
Judge, U.S. Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit 
1893-1895:
Associate Justice, U.S. Supreme Court 

RESOURCES:
Biographical Directory of Federal Judges
Biographical Directory of Congress
Congressional Quarterly
Oyez
Supreme Court Historical Society
Wikipedia 

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