[3] He attended Suffolk University Law School and the Massachusetts College of Art and Design and was a professional actor for a short time.

[3] After his father's death, Jackson took over his dry cleaning and tailoring shop.

[1] From 1963 to 1975, Jackson was an officer in the Middlesex Superior Court in Cambridge, Massachusetts.

[3] In 1976, the city council chamber in the new Malden government center was named after Jackson.

[10] Jackson died on September 5, 1978, at his summer home in Oak Bluffs, Massachusetts.