Voice of the New West: John G. Jackson, His Life and Times |
Contents
The Formative Years | 5 |
The Youthful Legislator | 19 |
From Log Cabin to Clapboard Mansion | 37 |
Jeffersonian Congressman | 59 |
Defender of American Rights | 81 |
An Era of Transition | 107 |
Industrial Entrepreneur and Patriot | 127 |
Wartime Congressman | 151 |
Postwar Congressman | 177 |
The Monongalia Navigation Company | 195 |
Constitutional Reform in Virginia | 217 |
The Final Years | 233 |
Bibliography | 255 |
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