2. (noun)Jackson, Michael Jackson, Michael Joe Jackson United States singer who began singing with his four brothers and later became a highly successful star during the 1980s (born in 1958)
3. (noun)Jackson, Mahalia Jackson United States singer who did much to popularize gospelmusic (1911-1972)
4. (noun)Jackson, Jesse Jackson, Jesse Louis Jackson United States civil rights leader who led a nationalcampaign against racial discrimination and ran for presidential nomination (born in 1941)
5. (noun)Jackson, Helen Hunt Jackson, Helen Maria Fiske Hunt Jackson United States writer of romantic novels about the unjust treatment of Native Americans (1830-1885)
7. (noun)Jackson, Andrew Jackson, Old Hickory 7th president of the US; successfully defended New Orleans from the British in 1815; expanded the power of the presidency (1767-1845)
1. Jackson 1, a prosperous manufacturingcity (21) in Michigan, U.S.A., on the Grand River, 70 m. W. of Detroit; has various mills, iron-works, breweries, &c., and bituminous coal-mines on its outskirts. 2, A cottonmarket-town (10), capital of Madison County, Tennessee, on the SouthFork of the Forked Deer River, 107 m. SE. of Cairo, Illinois.
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