Joseph Jackson (Canadian politician)


Joseph Jackson was a Canadian parliamentarian and lumberman.
Jackson was born in Norfolk County in what was then Upper Canada and became a lumberman in Simcoe. He was elected to the House of Commons of Canada in the 1882 federal election representing Norfolk South as a Liberal MP after defeating incumbent William Wallace by 26 votes. He was defeated after a single term in the 1887 federal election losing to Conservative David Tisdale by 51 votes.
In 1892, he was appointed sheriff of Norfolk.
He was married twice: first to Melinda Dowling and then to Mrs. Robert Jackson. He died in Simcoe at the age of 77.