Michael Jackson (NN)
About The Candidate
- Office Sought: Representative, Louisiana (6)
- Birth Date: Sept. 22, 1965
- Web site: http://michaeljacksonforcongress.com/
Education
- Southern University, BS
- Southern University Law School, JD
Michael Jackson was born and raised in Baton Rouge where he now lives. Jackson received a bachelor's degree from Southern University and a law degree from Southern University Law School.
Jackson, partner in a Baton Rouge law firm, has been a member of the Louisiana House of Representatives since 2000. Term limits bar him from another term in the state House. He was a member of the Louisiana National Guard from 1984-88.
Jackson is a lifelong Democrat who qualified for the congressional race as an independent after state and national parties indicated they were backing incumbent Don Cazayoux, a former colleague of Jackson in the state House.
Jackson and wife, Stephanie, have two daughters.
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