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GRANT JACKSON

 

 

     JACKSON, GRANT, Attorney, Los Angeles, California, was born at Petaluma, Sonoma County, California, June 13, 1869, the son of William Jackson and Mary C. (Francis) Jackson.  He is descended from an old family of Southerners, his father and great-grandfather having been soldiers.  The latter, Robert Jackson, was captain of a company of Tenesseeans (sic) in the War of 1812, and his father was a major of Missouri Volunteers who fought for the Union in the Civil War, and represented his county in the Legislature in 1855.  The Major was a delegate to the Constitutional Convention called by his cousin, the Governor of Missouri, for the purpose of passing a secession ordinance.  He here helped to defeat the efforts to carry Missouri out of the Union, and assisted in deposing the disloyal State Government and the election of a set of officers loyal to the nation.  He fought through the entire war.

     After the Civil War, Major Jackson moved to California, and there the son was born.  The younger Jackson was educated in the public schools of Lompoc and Santa Barbara, California.  In 1887, he began the study of law in the office of the Hon. W. C. Stratton, a pioneer lawyer then living at Santa Barbara, and in 1891 was admitted to practice by the Supreme Court of California.  He practiced at Santa Barbara until 1902, when he moved to Los Angeles.

     Since his entry into the life of that city he has had a fruitful practice and has been a conspicuous figure.  His offices are at Suite 918 Security Building.  He is a Republican in politics, of progressive tendencies; is a member of the Municipal League, Chamber of Commerce, the Chamber of Mines, the City Club, and is a Native Son of the Golden West.  His clubs are the Gamut and Union League of Los Angeles.

 

 

Transcribed 12-29-08 Marilyn R. Pankey.

Source: Press Reference Library, Western Edition Notables of the West, Vol. I,  Page 153, International News Service, New York, Chicago, San Francisco, Los Angeles, Boston, Atlanta.  1913.

© 2008 Marilyn R. Pankey.

 

 

 

 

 

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