{{Short description|American politician (1829–1893)}} {{distinguish|Jacob Jackson (soccer)}} {{Use mdy dates|date=April 2017}} {{Infobox officeholder | name = Jacob Beeson Jackson | image = Jacob Beeson Jackson.gif | caption = | order = 6th | office = Governor of West Virginia | term_start = March 4, 1881 | term_end = March 4, 1885 | predecessor = Henry M. Mathews | successor = Emanuel Willis Wilson | birth_date = {{birth date|1829|4|6|mf=y}} | birth_place = Parkersburg, Virginia<br/><small>(now West Virginia)</small> | death_date = {{death date and age|1893|12|11|1829|4|6|mf=y}} | death_place = Parkersburg, West Virginia | spouse = Maria Willard Jackson | profession = Politician | party = Democratic | footnotes = }}
'''Jacob Beeson Jackson''' (April 6, 1829{{spaced ndash}}December 11, 1893) was the sixth governor of West Virginia from 1881 to 1885. In 1855, he married Maria Willard.<ref name=wvfl>"West Virginia's First Ladies," West Virginia Division of Culture and History, June 2007.</ref> In his biography it is stated that he was a cousin of Stonewall Jackson. An examination of their family trees shows that the two men were second cousins once removed. He was also a 4th-cousin-once-removed to William Wirt Woodson who was Stonewall Jackson's half brother.
He was a son of General John Jay Jackson and his brothers were Federal Judge John Jay Jackson, Jr. and Circuit Judge and Congressman James M. Jackson. The Jackson Memorial Fountain at Parkersburg, West Virginia is dedicated to the Jackson family.<ref name="dhr">{{cite web|url=http://www.wvculture.org/shpo/nr/pdf/wood/84003686.pdf|title=National Register of Historic Places Inventory Nomination Form: Jackson Memorial Fountain|date=January 1984|accessdate=September 15, 2011 |author=Nimfa H. Simpson|publisher=State of West Virginia, West Virginia Division of Culture and History, Historic Preservation}}</ref>
==References== {{reflist|30em}}
==External links== *[http://www.wvculture.org/history/government/governors/jacjack.html Biography of Jacob Beeson Jackson] *[http://www.wvculture.org/history/government/governors/jacksonia.html Inaugural Address of Jacob Beeson Jackson]
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