Editing Howell E. Jackson (section)

== Supreme Court nomination ==
On January&nbsp;23, 1893, Supreme Court Justice [[Lucius Q. C. Lamar]] died.<ref name=":4" />{{Rp|342}} At this point, President Harrison was a [[Lame duck (politics)|lame duck]]: Grover Cleveland had won the [[1892 United States presidential election|1892 presidential election]] and would take office in six weeks.<ref name=":10" />{{Rp|108}} Although Harrison wanted to appoint a fellow Republican to fill the vacancy, he recognized that the Democrat-controlled Senate would likely refuse to act on the nomination since it could simply wait for Cleveland to make a more favorable appointment.<ref name=":10" />{{Rp|109}} Not long after Lamar's death, Justice Brown, whom Jackson had recommended to Harrison a few years prior, paid a visit to the White House.<ref name=":11">{{Cite book|last=Luxenberg|first=Steve|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=TY5gDwAAQBAJ|title=Separate: The Story of Plessy v. Ferguson, and America's Journey from Slavery to Segregation|publisher=[[W. W. Norton & Company]]|year=2019|isbn=978-0-393-65115-7|location=New York|language=en|access-date=May 9, 2021|archive-date=June 16, 2021|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210616115942/https://books.google.com/books?id=TY5gDwAAQBAJ|url-status=live}}</ref>{{Rp|439}} Wishing to return the favor, the Republican Brown suggested that the Democratic Jackson would be an ideal candidate for Harrison to select.<ref name=":11" />{{Rp|439–440}} Jackson indeed checked all the boxes for Harrison: he was a conservative and well-regarded jurist and came from the South, as Lamar had.<ref name=":10" />{{Rp|109}} The two had also served in the Senate together and were close friends.<ref name=":12">{{Cite book|last=Abraham|first=Henry Julian|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=NWJRemDnx2kC|title=Justices, Presidents, and Senators: A History of the U.S. Supreme Court Appointments from Washington to Bush II|publisher=[[Rowman & Littlefield]]|year=2008|isbn=978-0-7425-5895-3|location=Lanham, MD|language=en|access-date=March 16, 2021|archive-date=January 20, 2021|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210120013222/https://books.google.com/books?id=NWJRemDnx2kC|url-status=live}}</ref>{{Rp|120}} Harrison agreed to nominate Jackson, doing so on February&nbsp;2.<ref name=":1" />{{Rp|242}} The decision surprised both Republicans and Democrats, who expected Harrison to choose someone from his own party.<ref name=":13">{{Cite journal|last=Friedman|first=Richard D.|date=Fall 1983|title=The Transformation in Senate Response to Supreme Court Nominations: From Reconstruction to the Taft Administration and Beyond|url=https://heinonline.org/HOL/Page?handle=hein.journals/cdozo5&id=11&div=&collection=|journal=[[Cardozo Law Review]]|volume=5|issue=1|pages=1–95|via=HeinOnline|access-date=June 16, 2021|archive-date=June 16, 2021|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210616115956/https://heinonline.org/HOL/Page?handle=hein.journals%2Fcdozo5&id=11&div=&collection=|url-status=live}}</ref>{{Rp|40}} Jackson's nomination was held up initially in committee,<ref name=":12" />{{Rp|120}} but senators unanimously confirmed their ex-colleague on February&nbsp;18.<ref name=":10" />{{Rp|109}} Most had expected some objections on the floor, and a contemporaneous ''[[New York Times]]'' report noted that many were left "wondering...what became of the opposition".<ref name=":13" />{{Rp|40}} Professor Richard D. Friedman concludes their acquiescence was understandable: Democrats "could not very well vote against one of their own", while "Republicans, after initial disgruntlement, understood the logic of Harrison's move."<ref name=":13" />{{Rp|40–41}} Chief Justice [[Melville Fuller]] swore in Jackson on the morning of March&nbsp;4, just hours before administering the presidential oath to Harrison's successor.<ref name=":10" />{{Rp|109–110}}