William Jackson

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Later career

Major Jackson was admitted to the Pennsylvania Bar in 1788, but he had to wait two years to practice before the Pennsylvania Supreme Court, the most lucrative part of the legislation; in the meantime, he served as a (unpaid) volunteer in the Second Philadelphia Light Horse. He applied to be secretary of the United States Senate but Samuel Allyne Otis was appointed. When George Washington became President of the United States, he volunteered to be his personal secretary, saying that he had unpaid bills as a Continental officer and that his occupation was "not congenial to [his] temper."

In 1791, he resigned as secretary and began to practice law and serve as an advocate for William Bingham and Secretary of War Henry Knox, who were selling off a large land grant in Maine first sold by William Duer, first Undersecretary of the Treasury and now bankrupt. Jackson's career involved selling land on commission in England and France; the Committee of Public Safety was one of his potential clients. They were hesitant to invest their scant funds in Maine property; but Jackson authored a highly positive report on them and sent them back to the United States.

In the summer of 1795, he returned to the United States and married Elizabeth Willing, Mrs. Bingham's niece, in November; they were Thomas Willing's oldest daughters, the Shippens' Thomas Willing, a wealthy Philadelphia merchant. In January 1796 (during his remaining months in office), Washington, who had missed the wedding, appointed Jackson Collector for the Port of Philadelphia. Thomas Jefferson, another wedding guest, was dismissed in 1801 for politicizing his office. Jackson founded the Political and Commercial Register in Philadelphia and edited it until 1815.

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