Moses Jackson

Moses Jackson was a Confederate officer during the Civil War and a state legislator in Mississippi. He was accused of being a ringleader of violent Democrat Party election activities[1] He served in the state legislature immediately prior to the Civil War, after it, and again after Reconstruction ended. He served in the state house and as a state senator for Wilkinson County, Mississippi.

This article is about the Mississippi legislator. For the friend of A.E. Housman, see A._E._Housman § De_Amicitia_(Of_Friendship).

He served as a state legislator in 1861 serving in the Mississippi House of Representatives. He fought in the Confederate Army during the Civil War. He returned to the state legislature and served in the Mississippi Senate from 1865 to 1867 after the war and again as a state senator in 1877 after Reconstruction for two more terms.[2][3]

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References
  1. "REPORT OF THE SELECT COMMITTEE TO REQUIRE INTO THE MISSISSIPPI ELECTION OF 1875, WITH THE TESTIMONY AND DOCUMENTARY EVIDENCE". April 6, 1876 – via Google Books.
  2. Biographical and Historical Memoirs of Mississippi: Embracing an Authentic and Comprehensive Account of the Chief Events in the History of the State and a Record of the Lives of Many of the Most Worthy and Illustrious Families and Individuals. Goodspeed. 1891.
  3. Lowry, Robert; McCardle, William H. (April 6, 1891). A History of Mississippi: From the Discovery of the Great River by Hernando DeSoto, Including the Earliest Settlement Made by the French Under Iberville, to the Death of Jefferson Davis. AMS Press. ISBN 9780404046101 – via Google Books.
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