Claiborne Fox Jackson (April 4, 1806 – December 6, 1862) was a lawyer, soldier, politician, and Governor of Missouri in 1861, then governor-in-exile for the Confederacy during the American Civil War.
Jackson was elected to the state senate in 1848.
Jackson assumed the governor's office on January 2, 1861, and vowed to continue the policy of his predecessor Robert M. Stewart that Missouri would be "armed neutral," refusing to give arms or men to either side even though Jackson personally favored joining the South.
Claiborne Fox Jackson was born on April 4, 1806, in Fleming Co., Kentucky, to Dempsey Jackson and Mary Pickett.
Jackson practiced law, and for twelve years he was a member of the legislature, was Speaker of the House for one term (184446), was one of the originators of the present banking-house system of Missouri, and for several years was bank-commissioner.
Jackson took the latter as his mandate and battle cry and used it to articulate a particular Missouri identity, one that was explicitly proslavery and that located the state on the Southern side.
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