Enrique Jackson

Jesús Enrique Jackson Ramírez (24 December 1945 – 1 December 2021) was a Mexican politician affiliated with the Institutional Revolutionary Party (PRI). In addition to holding numerous positions in his party he served in both chambers of Congress.

Life Jackson was born in Los Mochis, Sinaloa, in 1945. He studied for, but never received, a bachelor's degree in public administration from the National Autonomous University of Mexico (UNAM) and started a career in the federal bureaucracy and the PRI. He joined the party in 1970 and began his civil service career in the 1970s in agencies such as IDECO (1973–74) and the Secretariat of Labor (1977–83). Between 1983 and 1985, he was the director general of Liconsa, then a chapter of the Compañía Nacional de Subsistencias Populares (CONASUPO), which produced and distributed milk for social welfare programs.

Legislative career Jackson was elected to the Chamber of Deputies for the first time in 1997, for the 57th Legislature. He was the president of the first Political Coordination Board and sat on commissions dealing with the Federal District, Government, Constitutional Points, and National Defense, as well as an investigative commission that looked into the operations of CONASUPO. Additionally, he was designated as a representative from the Chamber of Deputies to the Constituent Assembly of Mexico City, which convened from September 2016 to January 2017.