Hancock Lee Jackson was an American

United States

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 lawyer and politician. As Lieutenant Governor he was the 13th Governor of Missouri in 1857, taking office after previous Democratic Governor Trusten Polk

Trusten Polk

Trusten Polk served as both the 12th Governor of Missouri in 1857 and U.S. Senator from 1857 to 1862.-Biography:...

 resigned on February 27, 1857. Jackson was succeeded by fellow Democrat Robert Marcellus Stewart

Robert Marcellus Stewart

Robert Marcellus Stewart was the 14th Governor of Missouri from 1857 to 1861, during the critical years just prior to the American Civil War.-Early years:...

. Receiving the support of one faction of the Democratic Party in the 1860 gubernatorial election, this Jackson finished third in a race won by Claiborne Fox Jackson

Claiborne Fox Jackson

Claiborne Fox Jackson was a lawyer, soldier, and Democratic politician from Missouri. He was the 15th Governor of Missouri in 1861, then governor-in-exile for the Confederacy during the American Civil War.-Early life:...

 (no relation).

Jackson was born in 1796 in Richmond, Kentucky

Richmond, Kentucky

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, and died in 1876 in Salem, Oregon

Salem, Oregon

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