Jesse B. Jackson

Jesse Benjamin Jackson was a United States consul and an important eyewitness to the Armenian Genocide. He served as consul in Aleppo when the city was the junction of many important deportation routes. Jackson concluded that the policies towards the Armenians were without doubt a carefully planned scheme to thoroughly extinguish the Armenian race. He considered the wartime antiArmenian measures to be a gigantic plundering scheme as well as a final blow to extinguish the race. By September 15, 1915, Jackson estimated that a million Armenians had been killed and deemed his own survival a miracle. After the Armenian Genocide, Jackson led a relief effort and was credited with saving the lives of thousands of Armenians.

Jesse Benjamin Jackson was born in Paulding, Ohio on November 19, 1871 to Andrew Carl Jackson and Lucy Ann Jackson. Jackson attended the local Paulding public schools and eventually served as a quartermaster sergeant in the U.S. Army during the SpanishAmerican War. Jackson enrolled as a clerk of the House of Representative from 190001 and later was employed in insurance and real estate business. Jackson was later appointed as the American consul at skenderun on March 15, 1905. This position lasted until 1908 when he became the U.S. consul at Aleppo.

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