Jackson, John J.

Submitted by Mike Miller

John J. Jackson, one of the able lawyers practicing at the bar of Louisiana, is in charge of the branch office at Hammond, of the legal firm of Sanders, Baldwin, Viosca and Haspel, of New Orleans. His offices are in the Citizens National Bank Building, Hammond. Mr. Jackson was born at New Orleans, June 29, 1888, a son of Thomas Jackson, a resident of New Orleans, and a native of that city, where he was born, February 22, 1855. His entire life has been spent in the Crescent City, and he is still active as a general laborer, in which line of endeavor he has always been engaged. He is a democrat and a member of the Roman Catholic Church. His wife, Mary Upton, was born at New Orleans, March 18, 1859, and she, too is living. Their children are: John J., whose name heads this review; Thomas M., who resides at New Orleans, served two enlistments in the United States Navy, but is now an employe of the New Orleans Public Service, Incorporated; and Peter S., who resides at New Orleans, is electric lineman for the New Orleans Public Service, Incorporated. He, too, served in the navy, for one enlistment, and during the World war, he constructed receiving and broadcasting wireless telegraph stations for the United States Government in the South.

His early education received in the Christian Brothers Academy, New Orleans, John J. Jackson studied law at home, and also took a legal course with the International Correspondence School, Scranton, Pennsylvania. His final work in the law was done when he took a course in civil law in Loyola University, New Orleans, in which he was graduated in 1920, with the degree of Bachelor of Laws. During the summers of 1921 and 1922, he held the position of chair at law in this university. In June, 1920, he was admitted to the bar, and associated himself with the law firm of Bonomo & Dowling, the former of whom is, and has been for some time, secretary and lecturer in Loyola University, and the latter, Judge of the Criminal District Court of New Orleans. In July, 1922, Mr. Jackson became associated with J. Y. Sanders, Senior, former governor of Louisiana, in the legal firm of Sanders, Baldwin, Viosca and Haspel, and this connection continues, although in March, 1923, Mr. Jackson came to Hammond to open the branch office of his firm, of which he is still in charge.

Mr. Jackson is a democrat, and served as a notary public in Orleans parish, and holds the same office in Tangipahoa Parish today. He is a member of the Holy Ghost Roman Catholic Church of Hammond, and Marquette Council Number 1437, K. of C., of New Orleans. During the World war he served on the War Trade Board of the United States government, in the jurisdiction of the Department of Justice, whose sole function was to regulate and supervise commercial trade as between this country and the allies and neutrals. He was in the service from April, 1918, until August, 1919. His comfortable residence on Calhoun Street, is owned by him.

On June 23, 1909, Mr. Jackson was married in Saint Theresa Church, New Orleans, to Anais Evans, born at Longview, Texas. He was educated in Notre Dame Academy, New Orleans, and for three years taught music in New Orleans, and is very proficient on the pipe organ. Mrs. Jackson belongs to Holy Ghost Roman Catholic Church, Hammond. Mr. and Mrs. Jackson have the following children; Mary Catherine, who was born April 17, 1910; Jacqueline M., who was born October 2, 1912; T. Richard, who was born January 8, 1915; and Maud, who was born July 19, 1919. Their fourth child, John M., who was born December 8, 1916, died May 27, 1917.

The grandfather of Mrs. Jackson, Richard J. Evans, was born at Washington, District of Columbia, in 1837, and died at New Orleans, in January, 1915. He was a resident of Washington City at the outbreak of war in the '60s, and enlisted from there in the Confederate service, in which he continued until peace was declared, rising in it to the rank of major. Following the close of the war he went to New Orleans, and was a constructing engineer on railroad construction. For some time he was with the United States Geodetic Survey, and surveyed much of southern Louisiana. Going back, eventually, to Washington, he continued in the government geodetic service until he went to Texas to become vice president and general manager of the Texas and Sabine Gulf Railroad Company, now the Texas Pacific Railroad Company. Once more he took up his work as consulting engineer at New Orleans, and as such served with the New Orleans Sewerage & Water Board. He married Anais La Garde, a native of New Orleans. whose death occurred in that city. The Evans family came from England to Virginia, during the Colonial epoch of the country.

Richard M. Evans, son of Richard J. Evans, and father of Mrs. Jackson, was born at Washington, District of Columbia, March 10, 1868, and died at New Orleans, August 9, 1917. He was reared at the national capital, and in young manhood went to Longview, Texas. where he was engaged in railroad construction work under his father. In 1898 he came to New Orleans, and for a few years thereafter, held a position with the old New Orleans Drainage Board. Later he was made foreman of construction for the New Orleans Railway and Light Company. In his political views he was a democrat. The Roman Catholic Church held his membership. While still living in Texas, he joined its National Guard, and commanded a company in that organization. He was married, in Texas, to Kate Marks, who was born in Bossier Parish, Louisiana. She died at Longview, Texas, October 13, 1899. Mrs. Jackson was the only child of her parents.

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A History of Louisiana, (vol. 2), pp. 11-12, by Henry E. Chambers. Published by The American Historical Society, Inc., Chicago and New York, 1925.