Texas Legislators: Past & Present

John Shadrack Jackson

Full Name: John Shadrack Jackson
Birth date: December 15, 1846
Death date: January 18, 1901

(1) Republican. Pocket Directory of the Eighteenth Legislature of Texas 1883.

Census of 1870 - John Jackson, Starrville, Smith County, age 23, born circa 1847 in Georgia, living in household with Mary Jackson.
Census of 1880 - John S. Jackson, Smith County, age 33, born circa 1847 in Georgia, farming, living in household with Margaret Jackson.
Census of 1900 - John S. Jackson, Smith County, age 53, born December 1847 in Georgia, farmer, wife Margaret J. FamilySearch . 1900 1880

Death notice, Hon. J.S. Jackson, "formerly represented Smith county in the legislature," 1/26/1901, p. 4. Dateline Mineola, Tex., January 21. Grapevine Sun .
John Shadrack Jackson of Smith County, House, 12th dist., 18th Legislature, 1883-1885. The Tyler Journal, 5/29/1936, p. 67, crediting Smith County Historical Society.
Henry Edwards' report on the Smith County Democratic Executive Committee meeting in October 1884: "The county [Smith] was then represented by John S. Jackson, a big farmer residing in Browning and a Republican of large influence on many voters in this section of the county." "Lindale: The City and Its History," The Lindale Times, 2/18/1993, p. 1, crediting Smith County Historical Society.
Death notice, "Tyler, Texas, January 18. Hon. John S. Jackson, ex-representative of this county, at Redland, Wood county," Houston Daily Post, 1/19/1901, p. 4. Portal to Texas History (University of North Texas Libraries) . The Lindale Times The Tyler Journal

Biographical sketch, John Shadrack Jackson, p. 252. Born 12/15/1846 in Noonan County, Georgia. Texas Legislative Manual, 1882-83 1883.