Samuel Jacob Jackson

{{Short description|Canadian politician}}

{{Other people|Samuel Jackson}}

{{Use Canadian English|date=January 2023}}

{{Infobox officeholder

| honorific-prefix =

| name = Samuel Jacob Jackson

| honorific-suffix =

| image = Samuel Jacob Jackson.jpg

| constituency_MP = Selkirk

| parliament = Canadian

| predecessor = William McCreary

| successor = George Henry Bradbury

| term_start = 1904

| term_end = 1908

| office2 = Member of the Legislative Assembly of Manitoba for Rockwood

| predecessor2 = John Aikins

| successor2 = Isaac Riley

| term_start2 = 1883

| term_end2 = 1899

| office3 = 9th Speaker of the Legislative Assembly of Manitoba

| predecessor3 = William Winram

| successor3 = Finlay Young

| term_start3 = February 25, 1891

| term_end3 = January 15, 1895

| birth_date = {{birth date|1848|02|18}}

| birth_place = Stradbally, Ireland

| death_date = {{death date and age|1942|05|29|1848|02|18}}

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| party = Liberal

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| occupation = merchant and mill owner

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Samuel Jacob Jackson (February 18, 1848 – May 29, 1942) was a Canadian politician.

Born in Stradbally, Queen's County, Ireland, the son of Samuel Jackson and Elizabeth Sutcliffe, Jackson was educated at Brampton{{cite web |url=http://www.westmanitoba.com/bios/sjackson.htm |title=Samuel Jacob Jackson 1848 - 1942 |website=Western Manitoba Genealogy |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20191022235759/http://www.westmanitoba.com/bios/sjackson.htm |archive-date=October 22, 2019}} and at Brantford, Ontario.{{cite book |url=https://archive.org/details/canadianparliam00unkngoog |page=[https://archive.org/details/canadianparliam00unkngoog/page/n358 338] |title=The Canadian Parliamentary companion |year=1889 |last=Gemmill |first=J A |accessdate=October 24, 2012 }} He moved west to Manitoba in 1871. Jackson later became a partner in a mercantile firm in Winnipeg. In 1878, he married Ida Isabella Clark. Jackson later moved to Stonewall, where he was a merchant and mill owner.{{cite book |url=https://archive.org/details/cihm_58886 |pages=[https://archive.org/details/cihm_58886/page/n101 72]–3 |title=A political manual of the province of Manitoba and the North-west Territories |publisher=Call printing Company |last=Robertson |first=John Palmerston |year=1887 |isbn=9780665588860 |accessdate=October 24, 2012}}

He was elected to the Legislative Assembly of Manitoba for the electoral district of Rockwood in 1883, 1884, 1886, 1888, 1892 and 1896. He was defeated in 1899.[https://archive.org/details/canadianparliame00montuoft The Canadian Parliament; biographical sketches and photo-engravures of the senators and members of the House of Commons of Canada. Being the tenth Parliament, elected November 3, 1904] From 1891 to 1895, he was the Speaker of the Legislative Assembly.

He was first returned to House of Commons of Canada in the general elections of 1904 for the riding of Selkirk. A Liberal, he was defeated in 1908.{{Canadian Parliament links|ID=16109|nolist=yes}} He was an Alderman in the Winnipeg City Council in 1877, 1878 and 1880. Jackson was chairman of the Board of Works for Winnipeg in 1882.