
Charles Jackson (4 March 1797-21 January 1876) was the Whig Governor of Rhode Island from 6 May 1845 to 6 May 1846, succeeding James Fenner and preceding Byron Diman.
Biography[]
Charles Jackson was born in Providence, Rhode Island in 1797, the son of Richard Jackson Jr.. He became a lawyer in 1820, a cotton manufacturer, a rubber factory owner, and owner of the Burnside Rifle Works, and he served in the State House from 1839 to 1842 and as Governor from 1845 to 1846. Jackson supported the freedom of those imprisoned during the Dorr Rebellion, resulting in the Whigs ditching him as their gubernatorial candidate in 1845 and the Democrats unsuccessfully running him as theirs. He unsuccessfully ran for the US Senate in 1857 and died in 1876.