Lawyers and Lawmakers of Kentucky, by H. Levin, editor, 1897. Published
by Lewis Publishing Company, Chicago.  Reprinted by Southern Historical
Press.  p. 255.  Jefferson County.

WILLIAM L. JACKSON, Sr., long the judge of Louisville circuit court, was
born in Clarksburg, Virginia, February 3, 1825.  Of a family long
prominent in that state in the field, at the bar and on the bench, he
early demonstrated his fitness to maintain is standard of manhood.  He
began the practice of law in 1847, met with fair success and was elected
commonwealth's attorney of the Clarksburg judicial district.  On the
expiration of his term in that office he was elected to the Virginia
house of delegates and re-elected for a second term.  He was then twice
chosen second auditor and superintendent of the library fund, and in
1856 was elected lieutenant-governor of Virginia.  In 1860 he was elected
circuit judge of the nineteenth judicial district, but in 1861 he resigned
the office to enter the Confederate army as colonel of the Thirty-first
Virginia Infantry.  After serving for a year in West Virginia he was
transferred to the Army of Northern Virginia and became a member of the
staff of his cousin, "Stonewall" Jackson, with whom he took part in many
engagements.  After the death of his distinguished chief he recruited a
brigade of cavalry in that part of northwestern Virginia, and gallantly
commanded the same in the campaigns of the Shenandoah Valley, Maryland
and Pennsylvania.  After the surrender of Lee and Johnson, he disbanded
the last organized Confederate troops within the limits of Virginia, on
the 3d of May, 1865, at Lexington, Virginia.
     Judge Jackson then went to Mexico; after his return to this country
he located in Louisville, where he was accorded a prominent place at the
bar.  In 1872 he was appointed judge of the Louisville circuit court by
Governor Leslie, was elected at the next regular election and by popular
vote was continued in that office until his death in 1890.  As a judge
he was fearless, upright and impartial, qualities well tested when he was
selected by Governor McCreary to act as special judge in the trial of some
desperate cases at a period of excessive turbulence in one of the remote
mountain counties, where the local judge could not hold court.  His
presence restored and the confidence of the community, and the proceedings
of the court were conducted without hindrance.
     As a man Judge Jackson was much beloved by his friends, and his death
was deplored by the whole community.

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