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Jack·son (jak′sən)

  1. Jackson, Andrew 1767-1845; U.S. general: 7th president of the U.S. (1829-37): also called Old Hickory
  2. Jackson, Robert H(oughwout) 1892-1954; U.S. jurist: associate justice, Supreme Court (1941-54)
  3. Jackson, Thomas Jonathan 1824-63: Confederate general in the Civil War: called Stonewall Jackson
Jackson2 definition

Jack·son (jak′sən)

  1. capital of Miss., in the SW part, on the Pearl River: pop. 184,000
  2. city in W Tenn.: pop. 60,000

Etymology: after A. Andrew Jackson

Webster's New World College Dictionary Copyright © 2005 by Wiley Publishing, Inc., Cleveland, Ohio.
Used by arrangement with John Wiley & Sons, Inc.

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