| George Henry Jackson | |
| Office: | Member of the Ohio House of Representatives |
| Term Start: | 1892 |
| Term End: | 1893 |
| Party: | Republican |
| Birth Place: | Canada West |
| Birth Date: | October 4, 1847 |
| Death Date: | March 1925 |
| Alma Mater: | Shaw University, Yale University |
| Occupation: | Politician, lawyer, educator, real estate business, coal business |
| Spouse: | Virginia Gordon |
| Children: | 2 |
| Death Place: | Chicago, Illinois, U.S. |
George Henry Jackson (1847–1925)[1] was a Canadian-born American politician, lawyer, educator, and businessman. He served in the Ohio House of Representatives for Hamilton County, from 1892 to 1893.[2] He was a Republican.[3]
Jackson was born October 4, 1847, in Canada West, to parents Julia (née Burke) and George.[4] [5] His grandparents were Black and had been enslaved by the Custis family in Arlington, Virginia. Jackson was raised in Lafayette, Indiana, and in Cincinnati, Ohio. He studied teaching under Peter Clark.
In his early career he taught at schools in the Ohio Valley.[6] He married Virginia Gordon in 1879, and his father in-law was Robert Gordon, a wealthy Cincinnati coal dealer. He attended Shaw University, and Yale University. Jackson started practicing law in 1884. He served in the Ohio House of Representatives for Hamilton County, from 1892 to 1893.
Jackson was a trustee for the New Orphan Asylum for Colored Children, the Crawford Old Men's Home, and the Sallie McCall Industrial School of Cincinnati. He also worked in the real estate and coal business in Chicago.
His son, Dr. Gordon Henry Jackson (1885-1945) married Mae Walker (nee Fairy Mae Bryant), the adopted daughter of A'Lelia Walker, whose mother was the millionaire hair care entrepreneur Madam C. J. Walker, in New York on November 24, 1923.[7]