James Jackson was an early British-born Georgia politician of the Democratic-Republican Party. He was a member of the U.S. House of Representatives from 1789 until 1791. He was also a U.S. senator fro
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The Yazoo land scandal, Yazoo fraud, Yazoo land fraud, or Yazoo land controversy was a real-estate fraud perpetrated, in the mid-1790s, by Georgia governor George Mathews and the Georgia General Assem
Historical marker at the site of the Georgia Capitol at the time