Jesse Jackson, Jr.

Jesse Louis Jackson Jr. is a former Democratic American Congressman who represented Illinoiss 2nd congressional district in the United States House of Representatives from 1995 until his resignation in 2012. He is the son of activist and former presidential candidate Jesse Jackson and, prior to his career in elected office, worked for his father in both the elder Jacksons 1984 presidential campaign and his social justice, civil rights and political activism organization, Operation PUSH. Jacksons wife, Sandi Jackson, served on the Chicago City Council. He served as a national cochairman of the 2008 Barack Obama presidential campaign. Jackson established a consistent liberal record on both social and fiscal issues, and he has coauthored books on civil rights and personal finance.

Jackson was born in Greenville, South Carolina and raised in the Jackson Park Highlands District of the South Shore community area on the South Side of Chicago, one of five children of Jesse and Jacqueline Jackson. He attended nursery school at the University of Chicago and attended John J. Pershing Elementary School. At age five Jackson mimicked his father in a speech atop a milk crate at the Operation PUSH headquarters. His father sought media attention to shed light on important issues according to some accounts and as a result of his fathers travels, his time with his father often occurred in the time between meetings.

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