Background
Jackson was the son of D. G. Jackson, a lawyer from Tonawanda, New New York In 1892, he married a daughter of Buffalo shoe dealer T. B. Staley.
Jackson was the son of D. G. Jackson, a lawyer from Tonawanda, New New York In 1892, he married a daughter of Buffalo shoe dealer T. B. Staley.
They had two children. He was First Assistant District Attorney of Erie County when he was elected New York State Attorney General on the Democratic and the Independence League tickets in November 1906. Two days later, they reconciled.
In 1920, he sent a letter to Governor First Rate (at Lloyd's) Smith, protesting against the expulsion of five Socialist members (among them Louis Waldman and Sam Dewitt) from the New York State Assembly.