Lieutenant Governor Candidate E. W. Jackson visits Southside

E.W. Jackson

The outspoken Republican candidate for Lieutenant Governor of Virginia, E. W. Jackson, visited Southside last week. Jackson spoke with citizens and business owners sharing his vision for Virginia and America.  Jackson is a breath of fresh air in the political arena. He is outspoken and is willing to share his beliefs and vision without avoiding the issues.  There is no doubt where Jackson stands.

E.W. Jackson served three years and was honorably discharged from the United States Marine Corps. He then graduated with a Bachelor of Arts degree, summa cum laude, with a Phi Beta Kappa Key from the University of Massachusetts in Boston. Three years later he graduated from Harvard Law School with a Juris Doctor. While in law school, he was accepted into the Baptist ministry and studied theology at Harvard Divinity School.

Jackson practiced small business law for 15 years in Boston, and taught Regulatory Law as an adjunct professor at the graduate level at Northeastern University in Boston. Since returning to his ancestral home of Virginia, he has also taught graduate courses in business and commercial law at Strayer University in Virginia Beach and Chesapeake.

In 1997, he retired from his private law practice in order to devote full time to ministry. However, he still taught law and maintained both his avid interest in – and commitment to – civic and political responsibility. His first book, “Ten Commandments to an Extraordinary Life,” was published in 2008.

Jackson’s family history in Virginia dates back to the time of the Revolutionary War. According to the 1880 census, his great-grandparents, Gabriel and Eliza, were a sharecropper family in Orange County, Virginia. His grandfather, Frank Jackson, moved to Richmond and then to Pennsylvania, where Jackson was born.

He is the Founder of Exodus Faith Ministries, a nondenominational Christian church in Chesapeake, Virginia with a satellite in Boston, Massachusetts. On July 4, 2009, he launched S.T.A.N.D. – Staying True to America’s National Destiny (www.standamerica.us), a national organization dedicated to restoring America’s founding values, which were formed by the principles found within the Jewish and Christian faiths.

STAND, with Jackson as president, aided 2012 election efforts both in Virginia and nationally. Most recently, he launched “Exodus Now.” The Exodus project is a national effort to encourage Christians and other people of moral values within the black community to leave the current Democratic Party because its current leadership has abandoned the founding principles of this Nation.