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John Putnam Jackson (Newport, Kentucky lawyer, businessman, and politician.)

b. 1833-03-07 d. 1900-09-25

Newport, Kentucky lawyer, businessman, and politician. Ohio native. Married to Louisiana “Anna” Hooper Jackson. Father of nine children. Member of the Republican Party. Studied law with Benjamin Harrison in the law offices of Bellamy Storer. Member of the Kentucky Town Ball Club in the Ohio River Valley. Enrolled as a lieutenant colonel in the 23rd Kentucky Volunteer Infantry Regiment (U.S.A.) on September 1, 1861. Canvassed on behalf of Abraham Lincoln in the 1864 Presidential Election. Presidential elector for the Lincoln-Johnson ticket in 1864. Member of the Union Executive Committee of Kentucky in 1865.

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Bibliography

Report of the Adjutant General of the State of Kentucky, vol. 2, 1861-1866 (Frankfort: Kentucky Yeoman Office, 1866), 130.

Greg Perkins, “John P. Jackson,” The Encyclopedia of Northern Kentucky, ed. Paul A. Tenkotte and James C. Claypool (Lexington: University Press of Kentucky, 2015), 484. “Union State Convention at Frankfort,” The Commonwealth (Frankfort, Ky.), January 6, 1865.

KYR-0002-022-0001.

Citation

Jackson, John Putnam. Accessed via the Civil War Governors of Kentucky Digital Documentary Edition, https://discovery.civilwargovernors.org/document/S32212598 (November 12, 2026).

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