Horace Blackman of Tioga County,
New York, settled what is now Jackson in July of 1829. Settlers
continued to arrive, and a post office was opened in 1830. The
name of Jacksonburgh was given to the settlement in honor of
Andrew Jackson, but was changed to Jacksonopolis and then
shortened to Jackson in 1833.
Jackson Michigan, Birth place of the
Republican Party. On July 6, 1854, in Jackson, Mich., the
Republican Party formally organized itself by holding its first
convention, adopting a platform and nominating a full slate of
candidates for state offices. Other states soon followed, and
the first Republican candidate for president, John C. Fremont,
ran in 1856 with the slogan "Free soil, free labor, free
speech, free men, Fremont."
