Jesse Jackson biography at QuotationFun

A Short Biography of Jesse Jackson

Author Name:

Jesse Jackson

Born As:

Jesse Louis Burns

Other Names:

Jesse Louis Jackson, Sr.

Born:

08 Oct 1941

Died:





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Activist, clergyman and politician                          
                          
Mother Helen Burns
Father Noah Louis Robinson - Two years after Jesse's birth, his mother married Charles Henry Jackson, who would adopt Jesse 14 years later. Jesse went on to take the surname of his stepfather.
Wife Jacqueline Lavinia Brown, five children.

Affair with a staffer, Karin Stanford, that resulted in the birth of a daughter - 1999.                          
United States Shadow Senator for the District of Columbia - In office - January 3, 1991 – January 3, 1997.

In an AP-AOL "Black Voices" poll in February 2006, Jackson was voted "the most important black leader" with 15% of the vote.