Jesús Enrique Jackson Ramírez (born December 24, 1945) is a Mexican politician affiliated to the Institutional Revolutionary Party (PRI).
Jackson was born in Los Mochis, Sinaloa. He received a bachelor's degree in Public Administration from the National Autonomous University of Mexico (UNAM) and started a career in the federal bureaucracy.
From mid-1980s to mid-1990s, before the introduction of direct elections of local officials in the Mexican Federal District, Jackson was appointed chief administrator (delegado) of Mexico City's Cuauhtémoc borough (1985 – 1988), took charge of the Federal District's security office (1988) and headed the public transportation authority (1989 – 1990). Four years later, he became secretary general of the extinct Mexican Federal District Department (DDF).
In recent years he has been elected to the Chamber of Deputies (1997 – 2000) and the Senate (2000 – 2006).
During the first months of 2005 he participated in the PRI presidential primaries.
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“The honor my country shall never be stained by an apology from me for the statement of truth and the performance of duty; nor can I give any explanation of my official acts except such as is due to integrity and justice and consistent with the principles on which our institutions have been framed.”
—Andrew Jackson (1767–1845)