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Jesse Jackson, Jr.
Jesse Louis Jackson, Jr.
(born March 11, 1965) is a former
Democratic
American
Congressman
who represented
Illinois's 2nd congressional district
in the
United States House of Representatives
from 1995 until his resignation in 2012. He is the son of activist and former presidential candidate
Jesse Jackson
and, prior to his career in elected office, worked for his father in both the elder Jackson's
1984 presidential campaign
and his
social justice
,
civil rights
and political
activism
organization,
Operation PUSH
. Jackson's wife,
Sandi Jackson
, served on the
Chicago City Council
. He served as a national co-chairman of the 2008
Barack Obama presidential campaign
. Jackson established a consistent liberal record on both social and
fiscal
issues, and he has co-authored books on civil rights and personal finance.
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