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Elihu Jackson | |
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| 41stGovernor of Maryland | |
| In office January 11, 1888 – January 13, 1892 | |
| Preceded by | Henry Lloyd |
| Succeeded by | Frank Brown |
| Maryland House of Delegates | |
| In office 1882–1883 | |
| Maryland State Senate | |
| In office 1884–1886 | |
| In office 1895–1897 | |
| Personal details | |
| Born | November 3, 1837 Delmar, Maryland, U.S. |
| Died | December 27, 1907(1907-12-27) (aged 70) Baltimore, Maryland, U.S. |
| Party | Democratic |
| Spouse | Nannie Rider |
| Children | 5 |
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Elihu Emory Jackson (November 3, 1837 – December 27, 1907), a member of theUnited States Democratic Party, was the41st Governor of Maryland in the United States from 1888 to 1892. He was born in 1837 inDelmar, Maryland and died in 1907 in theCity of Baltimore, Maryland. He is buried at the Parsons Cemetery inSalisbury, Maryland, thecounty seat ofWicomico County.[1] He was part owner ofPemberton Hall, listed on theNational Register of Historic Places in 1971.[2]
Governor Jackson is also known as having attended the ceremonies atGettysburg Battlefield inGettysburg, Pennsylvania from the largest military battle on the North American continent in July 1863, dedicating several regimental and battle monuments for engagements participated in by theUnion Army (United States Army), and even visiting some already erected and privately fundedConfederate States Army monuments, and showing equanimity towards both sides with several regiments of Maryland troops in both armies, including regiments from the former pre-warState Militia. During the ceremonies and travels through the battlefield areas, he and his staff carried a revivedMaryland state flag incorporating the shield from the coats-of-arms of the old colonial proprietary family of theCalverts andCrosslands, with both the black/gold chevrons of the paternal Calvert family and the red/white colors of the splitbottony crosses (trefoil) of the maternal Crossland family. The ancestral parents of the first Lord Baltimore,Sir George Calvert, the first Baron Baltimore (Lord Baltimore) who originally received the granting charter in 1632 fromKing Charles I ofEngland for the new third English colony andProvince of Maryland, which after his sudden death, was transferred to his eldest son and heir,Cecilius Calvert (the second Baron Baltimore and Lord Baltimore), who then became the first Lord Proprietor of the Colony while still living in England. It was he who sent the first two ships (the"Ark" and the"Dove") to the shores of thePotomac River and theChesapeake Bay with colonists who first briefly visitedVirginia further south, then landed in March 1634, established the new capitalSt. Mary's City, under his younger brotherLeonard Calvert, as the first colonial governor.
By the end of the 19th century, carrying the old colonial armorial bearings from the shield emblazoned on a newly revived state flag, now seemed symbolic of the revival of reconciliation and sense of moving forward in the state so deeply torn asunder during the recentCivil War. There are several photographs of the Governor and his staff arrayed in front of several of the Maryland military monuments at Gettysburg, dressed in military uniforms and with the new state flag prominently posted alongside.
It was officially adopted in 1904 as the state flag by act of theGeneral Assembly of Maryland in the historic 18th-centuryMaryland State House in the later state capital ofAnnapolis.
In his 2005 biography of poet Ogden Nash, Douglas M. Parker has written that "Elihu Emory Jackson ... made a sizable fortune in the lumber business." The family, wrote Parker, were "Southern Methodists and Southern sympathizers." Jackson's granddaughter, Frances Leonard, was wed to Nash from 1931 to his death in 1971.[3]
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| Preceded by | Democratic nominee forGovernor of Maryland 1887 | Succeeded by |
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| Preceded by | Governor of Maryland 1888–1892 | Succeeded by |
