W. Brent Jackson, Date of Birth, Place of Birth
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politician
Date of Birth: 08-Nov-1957
Place of Birth: Clinton, North Carolina, United States
Profession: politician
Zodiac Sign: Scorpio 
About W. Brent Jackson
- William Brent Jackson (born November 8, 1957) is a Republican member of the North Carolina General Assembly representing the state's tenth Senate district, including constituents from Duplin, Johnston, and Sampson counties.Jackson is co-chairman of the Senate Appropriations/Base Budget Committee, and the immediate past co-chairman of the Senate Appropriations Subcommittee on Natural and Economic Resources and the Senate Agriculture/Environment/Natural Resources Committee.
- He is also co-chairman of the Joint Environmental Review Commission, Joint Agriculture and Forestry Awareness Study Commission and the Agriculture and Rural Caucus of the North Carolina General Assembly.
- Additionally, Jackson sits on the Senate Finance Committee, Rules and Operations of the Senate Committee, and Senate State and Local Government Committee.
- In 2014, he was elected to the Legislative Board of the international organization, State Agriculture and Rural Leaders.
- He has been involved in agriculture for almost 40 years and is the co-founder of Jackson Farming Company of Autryville. In 2015, Jackson authored an ag-gag bill subsequently made law after overcoming a veto by Governor Pat McCrory.
- The bill allows for prosecution of individuals who go undercover to expose animal cruelty and other illegal activity in the North Carolina factory animal farming industries.
- This law is based on the pro-business lobbying firm American Legislative Exchange Council's blue print. Jackson Farming Company grows watermelons, cantaloupes, honeydews, strawberries, pumpkins, squash, slicer cucumbers, sweet potatoes, corn, wheat, soybeans, peanuts, and flue-cured tobacco.
- Jackson owns two country grain elevators for the purpose of purchasing and storing corn, small grains, and wheat from his farm and area farmers.
- In 2005, he expanded and built a liquid fertilizer plant, which supplies his farms and area farmers with drip fertilizer.
- In May of 2019, a building owned by Jackson Farming Company suffered significant fire damage and was destroyed.Jackson was born in Clinton, North Carolina and lives in Autryville with Debbie, his wife of 41 years.
- He is active in his church, Union Grove Baptist Church, and is the father of three sons and grandfather of three grandchildren.
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