Representative Albert E. Jackson View All Years

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Albert E. Jackson

Tama County

ALBERT E. JACKSON was born in Wabash County, Indiana, September 23, 1860, and died in a hospital in Iowa City, Iowa, July 11, 1924. Interment was at Tama. He was brought by his parents, Andrew and Catharine Jackson, when they removed to a farm near Tama in 1861. He was graduated from Tama High School in 1879, taught school awhile, and then entered the Farmers and Merchants Bank of Tama as cashier, remaining several years. In 1895 he was elected representative and was re-elected in 1897, serving in the Thirty-sixth, Thirty-sixth Extra, and Thirty-seventh general assemblies. He was the Fifth District member of the Democratic State Central Committee from 1899 to 1904 inclusive, being secretary of the committee in 1900, and chairman in 1902 and 1903. He purchased the Tama News in 1906 and for eight years was its editor and publisher. For eight years he was postmaster at Tama, President Wilson appointing him in 1914, and reappointing him four years later. He was an able writer, an accomplished and a scholarly man, a nature lover, and a useful citizen.

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