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Howell Edmunds Jackson
Associate Justice, Supreme Court of the United States · 1886–1893
Howell Edmunds Jackson , Associate Justice, Supreme Court of the United States. Howell Edmunds Jackson (April 8, 1832 – August 8, 1895) was an American attorney, politician, and jurist who served as an Associate Justice of the Supreme Court of the United States from 1893 until his death in 1895. His brief tenure on the Supreme Court is most remembered for his opinion in Pollock v. Farmers' Loan & Trust Co., in which Jackson argued in dissent that a federal income tax was constitutional.
Education
- University of Virginia
- West Tennessee College (now Union University, Jackson, Tennessee)A.B., 1849
- Cumberland School of LawLL.B., 1856
Career
Private practice, Jackson, Tennessee, 1856-1858, 1874-1880; Private practice, Memphis, Tennessee, 1855-1861, 1865-1874; Receiver of alien property, West Tennessee, Confederate States of America, 1861-1864; Special judge, Court of Arbitration for Western Tennessee, 1875-1877; State representative, Tennessee, 1880-1881; U.S. senator from Tennessee, 1881-1886
Biography
Howell Edmunds Jackson (April 8, 1832 – August 8, 1895) was an American attorney, politician, and jurist who served as an Associate Justice of the Supreme Court of the United States from 1893 until his death in 1895. His brief tenure on the Supreme Court is most remembered for his opinion in Pollock v. Farmers' Loan & Trust Co., in which Jackson argued in dissent that a federal income tax was constitutional.
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