George Ernest Jackson

George Ernest (Ernie) Jackson (1921 – January 20, 1995) was a Canadian insurance executive, member of the Legislative Assembly of Ontario from 1955 to 1959, and senior political advisor to Ontario Premier John Robarts in the 1960s as well as a senior political strategist in the Ontario Progressive Conservative Party during Robarts's leadership.

Biography Jackson was born in Toronto but moved to London, Ontario when he was seven. His father was a travelling salesman. He left high school in the middle of grade 13 to join The Royal Canadian Regiment, serving with them during World War II in England, Sicily and Italy, and rising to the rank of captain. Disagreeing with the Liberal Party of Canada's position on conscription, he joined the Progressive Conservatives after the war and served as a backroom strategist for Harry Oliver White in Middlesex East in the 1949 Canadian federal election. which Robarts won on the sixth ballot. Jackson went on to be the new premier's closest political confidant. and was the party's campaign chairman in the 1963 Ontario general election and 1967 Ontario general election, both of which the Conservatives won with large majorities. Jackson died of cancer in 1995 at the age of 73.