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Jackson, Howell Edmunds, 1832-1895

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Personal name headingJackson, Howell Edmunds, 1832-1895
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Associated countryUnited States
Associated placeJackson (Tenn.) Memphis (Tenn.)
Belle Meade Plantation (Tenn.)
Birth date1832-04-08
Death date1895-08-08
Place of birthParis (Tenn.)
Place of deathNashville (Tenn.)
Field of activityLaw
AffiliationConfederate States of America
Court of Arbitration for Western Tennessee
Tennessee. General Assembly. House of Representatives
United States. Congress. Senate
United States. Circuit Court (6th Circuit)
United States. Court of Appeals (6th Circuit)
United States. Supreme Court
Democratic Party (U.S.)
Profession or occupationLawyers
Legislators
Senators
Judges
Found inForgotten Whig, 1994: t.p. (Howell Edmunds Jackson, 1832-1895)
WwW in Am. (Jackson, Howell Edmunds, senator, justice U.S. Supreme Ct.; b. Paris, Tenn., Apr. 8, 1832; d. Nashville, Tenn., Aug. 8, 1895)
Finding aid for Harding and Jackson family papers, via UNC University Libraries WWW site, May 1, 2020 (John Harding (1777-1865) established the plantation Belle Meade near Nashville, Tenn. His son, William Giles Harding (1806-1886), was a Tennessee militia general, planter, and horse breeder. Brothers William Hicks Jackson (1835-1903) and Howell Edmunds Jackson (1832-1895), were sons-in-law of W. G. Harding. W. H. Jackson, a Confederate general, managed Belle Meade in association with J. H. Harding and later as a partner of H. E. Jackson, who was a lawyer, Democratic legislator, U.S. Senator, and U.S. Circuit and Supreme Court judge)
Biographical directory of Article III federal judges, 1789-present, viewed August 31, 2021 (Jackson, Howell Edmunds; born April 8, 1832, in Paris, TN; died August 8, 1895, in West Meade, TN; judge, U.S. Circuit Courts for the Sixth Circuit; confirmed by the Senate on April 12, 1886; service terminated on March 4, 1893, due to appointment to another judicial position; judge, U.S. Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit; assigned on June 16, 1891, to a new seat authorized by 26. Stat. 826; service terminated on March 4, 1893, due to appointment to another judicial position; associate justice, Supreme Court of the United States; confirmed by the Senate on February 18, 1893; service terminated on August 8, 1895, due to death; A.B., West Tennessee College (now Union University, Jackson, Tennessee), 1849; LL.B., Cumberland School of Law, 1856; private practice, Jackson, Tennessee, 1856-1858, 1874-1880; private practice, Memphis, Tennessee, 1855-1861, 1865-1874; receiver of alien property, West Tennessee, Confederate States of America, 1861-1864; special judge, Court of Arbitration for Western Tennessee, 1875-1877; state representative, Tennessee, 1880-1881; U.S. senator from Tennessee, 1881-1886)
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