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Senate Years of Service: 1881-1886 Party: Democrat
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JACKSON, Howell Edmunds, a Senator from Tennessee; born in Paris, Henry County, Tenn., April 8, 1832;
moved with his parents to Jackson, Tenn., in 1840; pursued classical studies and graduated from West
Tennessee College in 1849, from the University of Virginia at Charlottesville in 1854, and from the law
department of Cumberland University, Lebanon, Tenn., in 1856; admitted to the bar and commenced
practice in Jackson; moved to Memphis, Tenn., in 1859 and engaged in the practice of law; served the
Confederacy as receiver of sequestered property; returned to Jackson in 1874 and served on the court
of arbitration for west Tennessee by appointment on two occasions; member, State house of
representatives 1880; elected as a Democrat to the United States Senate and served from March 4,
1881, until April 14, 1886, when he resigned to accept the appointment of United States circuit judge
for the sixth Federal circuit 1886-1893; appointed Associate Justice of the United States Supreme
Court to fill the vacancy caused by the death of Lucius Q.C. Lamar; took his seat March 4, 1893, and
served until his death in West Meade, Tenn., August 8, 1895; interment in Mount Olivet Cemetery,
Nashville, Tenn.
Bibliography Dictionary of American Biography;
Hardaway, Roger D. Howell Edmunds Jackson: Tennessee Legislator and Jurist. West
Tennessee Historical Society Papers 30 (1976): 104-19; U.S. Supreme Court. In
Memoriam. Washington, D.C.: Government Printing Office, 1895.
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