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Claiborne Fox Jackson (April 4, 1806December 6, 1862) was Governor of Missouri in 1861, then governor-in-exile for the Confederacy during the American Civil War. A successful manufacturing chemist, Jackson became heavily involved in Democratic Party politics and served twelve years in the Missouri General Assembly, before being elected to the state senate in 1848. In the run-up to the Civil War, he claimed to be anti-secession, in order to get elected Governor, but was secretly planning a secessionist coup in league with Confederate President Jefferson Davis. When Union troops in St. Louis jailed the local militia, fighting broke out and Jackson declared Missouri to be a free republic. In November 1861, the Confederacy recognised Missouri as its twelfth state, but the Union was increasingly dominant, and Jackson and his colleagues fled to Arkansas, pending a new invasion. Before this could happen, Jackson died of stomach cancer at Little Rock. ==Early life== Claiborne Jackson, son of Dempsey Carroll and Mary Orea "Molly" (Pickett) Jackson, was born in Fleming County, Kentucky, where his father was a wealthy tobacco farmer and slaveholder. In 1826 Jackson moved with several of his older brothers to Missouri, settling in the Howard County town of Franklin. The Jackson brothers established a successful general mercantile store, where young Claiborne worked until 1832 and the outbreak of hostilities in the Black Hawk War.〔Christensen, Lawrence O., ''Dictionary of Missouri Biography'', University of Missouri Press, 1999, pp. 423-425〕 Claiborne Jackson organized, and was elected captain of, a unit of Howard County volunteers for the conflict. Claiborne Jackson married Jane Breathhitt Sappington, daughter of prominent frontier physician John Sappington, in early 1831 but she died within a few months of the nuptials. Returning from the war, Jackson chose not to resume his business partnership with his brothers, instead deciding to try his fortune in nearby Saline County.〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Historical & Biographical notes )〕 In 1833 Jackson married Louisa Catherine Sappington, sister of his late first wife. He also worked with his father-in-law in the manufacture and sale of "Dr. Sappington's Anti-Fever Pills",〔Glassman, Steve. ''It Happened on the Santa Fe Trail''. Globe Pequot Press. 2008. pg.67-68〕 a patent medicine cure for malaria. The pills were widely distributed and a best-seller, especially in the American south and the then-Mexican southwest due to Saline Countys proximity to the Santa Fe Trailhead. Subsequently, both men and their extended family became quite wealthy and influential.〔〔 Tragedy struck again however in May, 1838 when Louisa Jackson also died. It is possible this was due to complications of childbirth, as Claiborne and Louisa's infant son Andrew Jackson died the next month in June, 1838. Claiborne Jackson's next, and final, marriage was to a third Sappington sister, Eliza. Eliza would survive her husband, dying in 1864. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Claiborne Fox Jackson」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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