Jonathan Jackson
American activist and politician (born 1966)
Illustration by Vugol.me, adapted from Official U.S. Congress portrait · Public domain
Races
- 2026 · U.S. House, IL-01 · General · Democratic · on the ballot · incumbent
- 2024 · U.S. House, IL-01 · General · Democratic · result not on file · incumbent · source
- 2022 · U.S. House, IL-01 · General · Democratic · won · 159,142 votes (67.0%) · source
Background
Jonathan Luther Jackson is an American activist and politician serving as the U.S. representative for Illinois's 1st congressional district since 2023. A member of the Democratic Party and son of Rev.
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Jesse Jackson, he was previously the national spokesman for the Rainbow/PUSH Coalition, a financial analyst, and a partner in the beer distributorship River North Sales and Service, based in Chicago.
Campaign finance
As of 2026-06-30 · Source: FEC
Website and social
Sources
- Official portrait — public-domain congressional image set (unitedstates project)
- Background — Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 4.0, retrieved 2026-09-23 — https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jonathan_Jackson_(Illinois_politician)
- Website and social links — Wikidata (CC0) — https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q6273473
- Official social accounts — congress-legislators dataset (unitedstates project)
- Roster — FEC filing — https://www.fec.gov/data/candidate/H2IL01349/
- photo_headshot — https://jonathanjackson.house.gov/about
- photo_full_body — https://jonathanjackson.house.gov/
- photo_action — https://jonathanjackson.house.gov/
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