United States, Georgia, Chatham County, Savannah, 32.08354, -81.09983Lamplugh, George R., 1944-2003-12-08Encyclopedia article about James Jackson. Jackson was born in Moretonhampstead, Devonshire, England, on September 21, 1757, the son of Mary Webber and James Jackson. He made his most important contributions to his adopted state in the political arena, overturning the Yazoo land fraud of 1795 and building the state's first true political party. Jackson and his wife, Mary Charlotte Young, had four sons who lived to adulthood, William Henry, James Jr., Jabez, and Joseph Webber. Jackson County, in northeast Georgia, is named in his honor.text/htmlengForms part of the New Georgia Encyclopedia.http://rightsstatements.org/vocab/InC/1.0/Forms part of the New Georgia Encyclopedia.Governors--GeorgiaLawyers--Georgia--SavannahLegislators--United StatesStatesmen--Georgia--SavannahPoliticians--Georgia--SavannahJackson, James, 1757-1806James Jackson (1757-1806)Text