Charles Jackson (1775–1855) was an
American jurist, born in
Newburyport, Massachusetts. Jackson was the son of Revolutionary hero and Massachusetts delegate
Jonathan Jackson (1743–1810) and
Hannah Tracy. He was also the brother of
Lowell, Massachusetts industrialist
Patrick Tracy Jackson.
He graduated from
Harvard 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.
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 State laws in 1833. He also wrote
Treatise on the Pleadings and Practice in Real Actions in 1828.
Through his daughter, Amelia Lee Jackson, he was the grandfather of
Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr., Associate Justice of the Supreme Court of the United States.
Category:Massachusetts state court judgesCategory:Harvard University alumniCategory:People from Boston, MassachusettsCategory:People from Essex County, MassachusettsCategory:People from Newburyport, MassachusettsCategory:1775 birthsCategory:1855 deaths
