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John Alexander Jackson B.A., (c. 1844 – 18 February 1889) was a politician in colonial Tasmania,[1] Attorney-General of Tasmania 1872 to 1873.[2]
Jackson was the youngest son of John Alexander Jackson, an architect in Tasmania, was educated at Queen's College, Oxford, and entered as a student at the Middle Temple in November 1864, being called to the bar in June 1868.[2] He subsequently returned to Tasmania, and was admitted to the bar of that colony, practising at Hobart.[2]
Jackson was member of the Tasmanian House of Assembly for the Electoral district of Queenborough from 8 September 1871 until resigning in July 1876.[1] Jackson was Attorney-General in the Frederick Innes ministry from November 1872 to August 1873, and died on 18 February 1889, aged forty-five years.[2]
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