James Jackson

He was a man of marked character, high principles and strong temperament - honest patriotic, brave, hating tyranny, oppression and meanness in every form, the bold denouncer of crime in high as well as in low places, a ready speaker, and as ready with his pistol as his tongue, and involved in many duels on account of his hot opposition to criminal measures. The defeat of the Yazoo fraud was the most signal act of his legislative life, for which he paid the penalty of his life, dying of wounds received in the last of his many duels, which his undaunted attacks upon that measure brought upon him.