Democratic Sentinel, Volume 9, Number 14, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 1 May 1885 — HENRY R. JACKSON. [ARTICLE+ILLUSTRATION]

HENRY R. JACKSON.

United States Minister to Mexico.

Gen. Henry K. Jackson, whom President Cleveland has appointed Minister to Mexico, was bom at Savannah, Ga., in 1820, graduated from Yale College in 1839, studied law, and was admitted to the bar at Columbus, Ga., in 1840. Shortly afterward he was appointed United States District Attorney. He commanded a Georgia regiment in the Mexican war. In 1849 he wasappointed Judge of the Supreme Court for the Eastern District of Georgia, and in 1853- * was sent as Minister to Austria. In 1860 hewas appointed Judge of the Supreme Court of Georgia. He was a Confederate General in the war, was captured in the fall of 1864, and imprisoned for several months at Fort Warren.