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JACKSON, Andrew (1767-1845)
Son of Andrew Jackson and Elizabeth Hutchinson and husband of Rachel Donelson Robards, AJ was the seventh president of the United States. A General during the war of 1812, he was serving as president when JM died in 1836.

JACKSON, John G. (1777-1825)
Jackson married DPM's youngest sister Mary Payne in 1800. A civil engineer, he was elected to Congress from Western Virginia (now West Virginia). He proved a staunch supporter of his brother-in-law, JM. In 1819 he became U.S. district judge for the western district of Virginia, in which position he remained for the rest of his life. JGJ and DPM remained close even after the death of Mary Payne Jackson in 1808.

JENNINGS, Paul (1799??-)
Born a slave on the Madison plantation; son of an English trader and a Madison slave. Mary E.E. Cutts described him as a handsome mulatto who was DPM's favorite page. Daniel Webster bought and then manumitted him in 1846, after which he continued to help DPM in her old age and poverty. Author of A Colored Man's Reminiscences of James Madison (1865).

JOHNSON, Thomas B. (d 1843 )
Son of Joshua Johnson and Catherine Nuth, brother of Louisa Catherine Johnson Adams, and brother-in-law of John Quincy Adams, TBJ moved to New Orleans in 1807 and became postmaster there in 1808. Subsequently he sought appointment as a commissioner of the land office for the Orleans Territory eastern district, but returned to Washington in 1821 for reasons of ill health.

JOHNSON, William Jr. (1771-1834)
A South Carolinian from a family of modest means, WJ had gone to Princeton and graduated first in his class. Thomas Jefferson appointed him to the Supreme Court in 1804 as a Republican on a Federalist Court. He was a colleague and friend of DPM's brother-in-law, Thomas Todd.