Politicians
- John Jackson (mayor) (1809–1887), mayor of Tampa, Florida
- John Jackson (UK politician) (1851–1919), Member of Parliament for Plymouth Devonport, 1910–1918
- John Jackson (MP for Pontefract) (died 1637), English politician who sat in the House of Commons between 1624 and 1629
- Sir John Edward Jackson (diplomat) (1925–2002), British diplomat
- John G. Jackson (politician) (1777–1825), Virginia politician and federal judge
- John Jay Jackson, Jr. (1824–1907), Virginia and West Virginia politician and federal judge
- John Robert Jackson (1859–1925), rancher and politician in British Columbia, Canada
- Sir John Jackson, 1st Baronet (1763–1820), British businessman and MP for Dover and one of the Jackson Baronets
- John Jackson (Gold Coast), colonial governor in Gold Coast, now Ghana
- John Brinkerhoff Jackson (1862-1920), U.S. diplomat
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