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United States senator and 1944 convention chairman
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Samuel Dillon Jackson was born on May 28, 1895, in Lafayette Township, Allen County, near Zanesville — not in Fort Wayne itself. The distinction is kept here because his life was otherwise a Fort Wayne life: he attended the city's public schools, graduated from Central High School in 1914 and from Indiana Law School in 1917, served as an infantry captain in the First World War, and practiced law in Fort Wayne from 1919. He was Allen County's prosecuting attorney (1924–28) and Indiana's attorney general (1940–41). On January 28, 1944, he was appointed to the United States Senate to fill the seat left by Frederick Van Nuys's death, serving until November 13, 1944; that summer he was permanent chairman of the Democratic National Convention. He lost the 1944 race for governor, returned to Fort Wayne, and died there on March 8, 1951; he is buried in Lindenwood Cemetery.
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Sources: Biographical Directory of the United States Congress; Indiana Historical Bureau (via the Allen County Genealogical Society of Indiana).