Thomas Jackson (PS-1)

Thomas Jonathan "Stonewall" Jackson (January 21, 1824 - February 12, 1904) was a prominent 19th century Confederate general and the 7th Confederate States Secretary of War.

Shortly after the War of Secession, Jackson was promoted to the newly formed rank of Commanding General of the Confederate States Army, a position recommended by Robert E. Lee after declining to accept the position himself. After serving in that faculty for close to a decade, Jackson was offered a position in President Lee's cabinet as Secretary of War in 1874. Jackson would go on to hold that position throughout the Lee and Benjamin administrations as well as briefly serving under President Longstreet. In 1888 he was offered the position of Secretary of State under President Longstreet; however, he declined and less than a year later Jackson retired from government to return to his Virginia plantation. To date he is the only Confederate cabinet member to serve under three consecutive administrations.

In 1892, Jackson accepted a position as President of Jefferson College in Lexington, Virginia (now Jefferson and Jackson University) where he remained President up until his death in 1904. Over the course of his twelve years there, Jackson played a significant role in transforming the relatively small college into what is now one of the Confederacy's leading Business Schools.