He served on a state committee to plan the 300th birthday of Georgia’s founder James Oglethorpe, a new state history museum and the Bicentennial of the Georgia General Assembly among many others.Įd’s numerous awards and recognitions include the University of Georgia Walter B.
He was a long-standing member and board member of the Georgia Council of the Social Studies, chaired the Governor’s Commission on Georgia History and Historical Tourism, was a longtime member of the Georgia Historical Society, the North American Vexillological Association and the Southeast Federation of Stamp Clubs.
EDWIN JACKSON PROFESSIONAL
Russell Library for Political Research and Studies at UGA and to the Georgia Historical Society.Įd was a member and served in leadership roles in many professional and special interest groups, coalitions, committees, civic organizations and clubs reflecting his diverse interests and passions. Ed had recently donated much from his extensive collection of Georgia historical maps, documents, artifacts, and memorabilia to the Richard B. He also served as section editor in the online New Georgia Encyclopedia and published articles in the Georgia Historical Society’s Georgia History Today. Such sites include the well-known GeorgiaInfo website (through 2018), an online Georgia almanac, Georgia Historical Markers, Georgia Courthouses, Georgia Photo Gallery, Flags That Have Flown Over Georgia, Historical Atlas of Georgia Counties and others. He always utilized the latest in technology in his public service and created and edited over 15 websites on Georgia history, government and geography. A favorite and recent project of Ed’s was his extensive research, presentations and programs promoting the historical Dixie Highway to state and local officials, professional conferences, organizations and others.Įd authored, co-authored and edited many books, manuals, articles and other publications including The Georgia Studies Book, The Handbook for Georgia Legislators, The Handbook for Georgia State Agencies, James Oglethorpe: A New Look at Georgia’s Founder, Flags That Have Flown Over Georgia, Georgia’s Boundaries: The Shaping of a State and many others. More recently, he developed strategies to promote historical tourism statewide through UGA’s Archway Partnership. As a true scholar of Georgia history, it has been said that if Georgia had an official “state historian”, Ed would have been it.Ī few of Ed’s many public service projects and accomplishments include training newly elected Georgia legislators through the Biennial Institute for Georgia Legislators co-authoring and providing extensive educator training on The Georgia Studies textbook for 8th graders statewide instructing rising leaders in the annual State Model Legislature for 4-H organizing Friends of Oglethorpe to commemorate Georgia’s 250th Anniversary and the official state delegation trip to England, including a ceremony in Parliament and redesigning the Georgia state flag. He provided research, instruction and technical assistance to state legislatures, educators, governors, mayors, state and federal legislative interns, civic organizations, county governments and many, many others on a wide variety of topics related to Georgia. Over his long and distinguished career, he became known as the authority on Georgia history and Georgia state government. In 1975, he met and married Annette Franklin, his wife of 47 years.Įd was a Senior Public Service Associate Emeritus at the Carl Vinson Institute of Government at UGA, retiring after 40 years of dedicated public service.
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At UGA, he completed extensive doctoral work in political science and public administration and then accepted a full-time faculty position with the Carl Vinson Institute of Government in 1970. He then accepted a Political Science teaching position at Mississippi State College for Women before coming to the University of Georgia. While there, he was a Teaching Assistant in Political Science, a member of Phi Kappa Psi, a trumpeter in the Ole Miss Marching Band and joined the Army Reserves. in political science from the University of Mississippi. in history and political science and M.A. He grew up in Texas and graduated from Deer Park High School in 1961. Ed was born on August 24th, 1943 in Kingsport, TN to Richard and Lorene Jackson. Edwin (Ed) Jackson, age 79, of Athens, GA passed away peacefully on Tuesday, January 10th, 2023 surrounded by loved ones.
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