Alfred Metcalf Jackson

Alfred Metcalf Jackson (July 14, 1860 – June 11, 1924) was a U.S. Representative from Kansas.

Alfred Metcalf Jackson
Member of the
U.S. House of Representatives
from Kansas's 3rd district
In office
March 4, 1901 – March 3, 1903
Preceded byEdwin R. Ridgely
Succeeded byPhilip P. Campbell
Personal details
Born
Alfred Metcalf Jackson

(1860-07-14)14 July 1860
South Carrollton, Kentucky, U.S.
Died11 June 1924(1924-06-11) (aged 63)
Winfield, Kansas, U.S.
Political partyDemocratic Party

Born in South Carrollton, Kentucky, Jackson attended the common schools and West Kentucky College, and then studied law. He was admitted to the bar and practiced. He moved to Howard, Kansas, in 1881 and engaged in the practice of law. He served as prosecuting attorney of Elk County in 1890. He served as judge of the thirteenth judicial district of Kansas in 1892. He moved to Winfield, Kansas, in 1898.

Jackson was elected as a Democrat to the Fifty-seventh Congress (March 4, 1901 – March 3, 1903). While in Congress he introduced a bill proposing government ownership of telegraph lines which attracted considerable attention. He was an unsuccessful candidate for reelection in 1902, but in 1904 Jackson was a delegate to the Democratic National Convention that nominated Alton B. Parker and Henry G. Davis.[1] He resumed the practice of law in Winfield, Kansas, and died there on June 11, 1924. He was interred at the Highland Mausoleum in Winfield.[2]

Notes
  1. Frank W. Blackmar, ed. (1912). "Alfred Metcalf Jackson". Kansas: a cyclopedia of state history, embracing events, institutions, industries, counties, cities, towns, prominent persons, etc ... II. Chicago: Standard Pub Co. p. 17.
  2. Alfred Metcalf Jackson at Find a Grave

References
U.S. House of Representatives
Preceded by
Edwin R. Ridgely		 Member of the U.S. House of Representatives
from Kansas's 3rd congressional district
March 4, 1901 – March 3, 1903		 Succeeded by
Philip P. Campbell

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