Jackson County (21 Counties Named For Jackson)
This is a list of all of the Counties in the United States named for Andrew Jackson, the seventh president of the United States.
- Jackson County, Alabama
- Jackson County, Arkansas
- Jackson County, Colorado
- Jackson County, Florida
- Jackson County, Illinois
- Jackson County, Indiana
- Jackson County, Iowa
- Jackson County, Kansas
- Jackson County, Kentucky
- Jackson County, Michigan
- Jackson County, Mississippi
- Jackson County, Missouri
- Jackson County, North Carolina
- Jackson County, Ohio
- Jackson County, Oregon
- Jackson County, South Dakota
- Jackson County, Tennessee
- Jackson County, Texas
- Jackson County, West Virginia
- Jackson County, Wisconsin
- Jackson Parish, Louisiana
NOTE (3 Counties were named for other people named Jackson)
- Jackson County, Georgia is named for James Jackson, the 23rd governor of Georgia.
- Jackson County, Minnesota is named for Henry Jackson, a member of the first Minnesota Territory legislature.
- Jackson County, Oklahoma is named for Thomas "Stonewall" Jackson, the famous Confederate general.
Read more about this topic: List Of U.S. Counties Named After U.S. Presidents
Famous quotes containing the words jackson, county and/or named:
“All the rights secured to the citizens under the Constitution are worth nothing, and a mere bubble, except guaranteed to them by an independent and virtuous Judiciary.”
—Andrew Jackson (1767–1845)
“Anti-Nebraska, Know-Nothings, and general disgust with the powers that be, have carried this county [Hamilton County, Ohio] by between seven and eight thousand majority! How people do hate Catholics, and what a happiness it was to show it in what seemed a lawful and patriotic manner.”
—Rutherford Birchard Hayes (1822–1893)
“I know that some will have hard thoughts of me, when they hear their Christ named beside my Buddha, yet I am sure that I am willing they should love their Christ more than my Buddha, for the love is the main thing, and I like him too.”
—Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)