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Jackson, Samuel Dillon, 1895-1951

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Personal name headingJackson, Samuel Dillon, 1895-1951
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Birth date18950528
Death date19510308
Place of birthZanesville (Ind.)
Place of deathFort Wayne (Ind.)
AffiliationIndiana University. School of Law
Indiana. Office of the Attorney General
United States. Congress. Senate
Democratic Party (U.S.)
Profession or occupationLawyers
Legislators
Found inPhotograph: Roosevelt speaking at Fort Wayne, Indiana, Truman Library, Oct. 28, 1944: (photograph features Indiana senator Samuel Dillon Jackson)
Bio. dir. of U.S. Congress WWW site search, July 7, 2010: (Samuel Dillon Jackson; b. May 28, 1895, Zanesville, Ind.; d. Mar. 8, 1951, Fort Wayne, Ind.; captain, Infantry 1917-1919; attorney; apptd. Jan. 28, 1944, democrat, U.S. Senate to fill the vacancy left by Frederick Van Nuys, served Jan. 28, 1944-Nov. 13, 1944; unsuccessful Democratic candidate for Governor of Indiana, 1944)
Biographical directory of the U.S. Congress website, January 17, 2014 (Jackson, Samuel Dillon, a Senator from Indiana; born near Zanesville, Allen County, Ind., May 28, 1895; attended the public schools of Fort Wayne, Ind.; graduated from the Indiana University Law School at Indianapolis in 1917, and admitted to the bar the same year; during the First World War, served as a captain of Infantry 1917-1919; engaged in the practice of law at Fort Wayne, Ind., in 1919; prosecuting attorney of Allen County, Ind., 1924-1928; unsuccessful Democratic candidate for election in 1928 to the Seventy-first Congress; attorney general of Indiana 1940-1941; appointed on January 28, 1944, as a Democrat to the United States Senate to fill the vacancy caused by the death of Frederick Van Nuys and served from January 28, 1944, to November 13, 1944, when a duly elected successor qualified; was not a candidate for election to fill the vacancy; unsuccessful Democratic candidate for Governor of Indiana in 1944; resumed the practice of law; died in Fort Wayne, Ind., March 8, 1951; interment in Lindenwood Cemetery)
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