Jesse Jackson Jr.
| Jesse Jackson Jr. | |
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| Member of the U.S. House of Representatives from Illinois's 2nd district |
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In office December 12, 1995 – November 21, 2012 |
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| Preceded by | Mel Reynolds |
| Succeeded by | Robin Kelly |
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| Born |
Jesse Louis Jackson Jr. March 11, 1965 Greenville, South Carolina, U.S. |
| Political party | Democratic |
| Spouse(s) | Sandi Stevens (m. 1991) |
| Children | Jessica Tre |
| Alma mater |
North Carolina Agricultural and Technical State University Chicago Theological Seminary University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign |
| Religion | Baptist |
Jesse Louis Jackson Jr. (born March 11, 1965) is a former Democratic American Congressman who represented Illinois's 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 Jackson's 1984 presidential campaign and his social justice, civil rights and political activism organization, Operation PUSH. Jackson's wife, Sandi Jackson, served on the Chicago City Council. He served as a national co-chairman of the 2008 Barack Obama presidential campaign. Jackson established a consistent liberal record on both social and fiscal issues, and he has co-authored books on civil rights and personal finance.
In October 2012, Jackson was investigated for financial improprieties including misuse of campaign funds. Jackson resigned from Congress on November 21, 2012, citing mental and physical health problems, including bipolar disorder, and gastrointestinal problems. On February 8, 2013, Jackson admitted to violating federal campaign law by using campaign funds to make personal purchases. Jackson pleaded guilty on February 20, 2013 to one count of wire and mail fraud. On August 14, 2013, he was sentenced to 30 months in federal prison.
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 (Brown) 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 father's travels, his time with his father often occurred in the time between meetings.
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