Charles Jackson (31 May 1775 – 13 December 1855) was an American jurist.

Biography

He was born in

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. Jackson was the son of Newburyport merchant and

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Massachusetts delegate Jonathan Jackson and Hannah Tracy. He graduated from Harvard University in 1793, studied law with Chief Justice Parsons, and began to practice in 1796 at Newburyport. In 1803, he relocated to Boston, where, associated with Judge Hubbard, he had a most lucrative practice, probably more lucrative than any other in New England had been up until that time. Jackson was judge of the Massachusetts Supreme Court (1813–24), a member of the State Constitutional Convention of 1820, and one of the commissioners to revise the Massachusetts State Laws in 1833, drawing up the second part of the “Revised Statutes.” He also wrote ''Treatise on the Pleadings and Practice in Real Actions'' in 1828. Jackson was elected a Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences in 1817.

Family

He was the brother of Lowell, Massachusetts industrialist Patrick Tracy Jackson and

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proponent James Jackson. His daughter, Amelia Lee Jackson, married physician Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr., later becoming mother of Associate Justice of the Supreme Court of the United States Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.

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The Oliver Wendell Holmes Library
at the Library of Congress contains the books of Holmes' great-grandfather, Judge Charles Jackson. {{DEFAULTSORT:Jackson, Charles (judge) 1775 births 1855 deaths Fellows of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences Harvard University alumni Lawyers from Boston Massachusetts state court judges People from Newburyport, Massachusetts People of colonial Massachusetts 19th-century American lawyers