Harry C. Jackson


Harry Cook Jackson was an American politician .

Life

Jackson graduated from Auburn University and received a Bachelor of Science degree in Mechanical Engineering. Jackson was now working as an engineer. Furthermore, he received in 1952 his admission as a lawyer.
From 1961 he was a member of the Senate of Georgia for 12 years. During this time he held there for two terms the post of president pro tempore. In 1974, he ran unsuccessfully for a nomination for the Democratic candidate in the upcoming election of the Governor of Georgia. In August 1978 he took again a democratic primary part, this time to prepare Kandidatens in the upcoming mayoral election in Columbus, Georgia and repressed while his party colleague Jack P. Mickle, who had sought the nomination for a second four-year term. After Jackson was able to win the next mayoral election also, he held the office from 1979 to 1982. Jackson was from 1985 a member of the Board of Directors of the Georgia Ports Authority, and was elected in September 1994 as its Chairman.