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{{short description|American judge}}

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| name = Charles Jackson
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| office = Associate Justice of the [[Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court]]
| term_start = 1813
| term_end = 1823
| predecessor = [[Theodore Sedgwick]]
| successor = ''Vacant''
| birth_date = {{birth date|df=y|1775|5|31}}
| birth_place = [[Newburyport, Massachusetts]], U.S.
| death_date = {{death date and age|df=y|1855|12|13|1775|5|31}}
| death_place = 
| relatives = {{unbulleted list| [[Patrick Tracy Jackson]] (brother) | [[James Jackson (physician)|James Jackson]] (brother)}}
}}
'''Charles Jackson''' (31 May 1775 – 13 December 1855) was an American jurist based in [[Massachusetts]].

==Biography==
Jackson was born in [[Newburyport, Massachusetts]]. He was the son of Newburyport merchant and [[Continental Congress]] Massachusetts delegate [[Jonathan Jackson (Continental Congress)|Jonathan Jackson]] and Hannah Tracy.

Jackson graduated from [[Harvard University]] in 1793, studied law with [[Samuel Holden Parsons|Chief Justice Parsons]], and began to practice in 1796 at Newburyport. In 1803, he relocated to [[Boston]], where, associated with [[Gardiner Greene Hubbard|Judge Hubbard]], he had a most lucrative practice, probably more lucrative than any other in [[New England]] had been up until that time.

Jackson was judge of the [[Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court|Massachusetts Supreme Court]] (1813–1824), a member of the State Constitutional Convention of 1820, and one of the commissioners to revise the Massachusetts State Laws in 1833, drawing up the second part of the “Revised Statutes.” He also wrote ''Treatise on the Pleadings and Practice in Real Actions'' in 1828. Jackson was elected a Fellow of the [[American Academy of Arts and Sciences]] in 1817.<ref name=AAAS>{{cite web|title=Book of Members, 1780–2010: Chapter J|url=http://www.amacad.org/publications/BookofMembers/ChapterJ.pdf|publisher=American Academy of Arts and Sciences|accessdate=September 8, 2016}}</ref>

==Family==
Jackson was the brother of [[Lowell, Massachusetts]], industrialist [[Patrick Tracy Jackson]] and [[Massachusetts General Hospital]] proponent [[James Jackson (physician)|James Jackson]]. His daughter, Amelia Lee Jackson, married physician [[Oliver Wendell Holmes Sr.]], later becoming mother of Associate Justice of the Supreme Court of the United States [[Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr.]]

==Sources==
* {{Cite AmCyc |last=Holmes |first=Oliver Wendell |authorlink=Oliver Wendell Holmes Sr. |wstitle=Jackson, Charles }}
* {{NIE|wstitle=Jackson, Charles|year=1905}}

==References==
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==External links==
*[https://www.loc.gov/rr/rarebook/coll/119.html The Oliver Wendell Holmes Library] at the [[Library of Congress]] contains the books of Holmes' great-grandfather, Judge Charles Jackson.

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