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Harvey Hardaway Jackson III (born February 25, 1943) is the Professor of History atJacksonville State University inAlabama. He is the author of a number of works on Alabama andGeorgia history.
He was born inJunction City, Kansas, in February 1943. His father Harvey H. Jackson Jr. was a teacher, businessman, and politician while his mother Elizabeth W. Jackson worked for theUS Department of Agriculture. Jackson studied for his B.A. atBirmingham-Southern College in 1965. He obtained an M.A. from theUniversity of Alabama in 1966 before marrying Marcia Flood in 1966. They divorced in 1987. He married Suzanne Brown in 1988. He has three children: Kelly Leigh Jackson (b. 1968), William Blackwell Jackson (b. 1993) and Anna Elizabeth Jackson (b. 1998).
Jackson taught atSouth Florida Junior College inAvon Park, Florida, between 1966 and 1970 before studying for a doctorate at theUniversity of Georgia completing it in 1973. While studying for his doctorate, Jackson developed a particular interest in the 18th century.
Dr Jackson started work as an Assistant Professor of History atClayton Junior College inMorrow, Georgia, in 1973. He was promoted to Associate Professor in 1977. Jackson published his first book onLachlan McIntosh and Revolutionary Georgia in 1979.
He wrote a second book on Georgians who signed theDeclaration of Independence with co-authors Harvey Young, Edwin Bridges and Kenneth Thomas, published in 1981. Jackson became Professor of History and Chairman of Social Sciences in 1982.
Jackson worked withPhinizy Spaulding on editing a collection of essays on colonial Georgia published in 1984 and on writing a biography of GeneralJames Oglethorpe in 1989.
He published two works on the history of Alabama rivers in the 1990s. In 1990 he became Professor and head of the Department of History and Foreign Languages at Jacksonville State University. In 2003, he published a history of Alabama that he had been working on for five years. In 2008 he became Eminent Scholar in History at Jacksonville State University.
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