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- Birth nameJohn Murice Jackson
- Height6′ 2½″ (1.89 m)
- John Murice Jackson (born June 1, 1950) is an American actor, best known for playing Rear Admiral A. J. Chegwidden on the CBS series JAG and also as a special guest star on its spin-off NCIS and recurring cast to its spin-off NCIS: Los Angeles.John was forced to use his middle initial "M." for his professional name because there was already a "John Jackson" registered with the Screen Actors Guild when he joined the union and SAG rules prohibit two or more members from using exactly the same name.
- IMDb mini biography by: Bonitao
- SpouseJana Gale Hawkins(October 13, 1979 - present) (2 children)
- Has played a JAG (Judge Advocate General) officer in two different works, A Few Good Men (1992) and JAG (1995), and a retired JAG officer in two additional works, NCIS (2003) and NCIS: Los Angeles (2009), with "JAG," "NCIS," and "NCIS: Los Angeles" being the same character, Albert Jethro Chegwidden (better known as Rear Admiral A.J. Cegwidden, USN (Ret.)).
- He was a social studies teacher (1975-1979) at Lyndon Baines Johnson High School in Austin, Texas.
- Son Conor Jackson was briefly (most of 2006) the everyday First Baseman for the Arizona Diamondbacks, before splitting his time at the end of 2006 through his June 15. 2010 trade to the Oakland Athletics playing First Base and Left Field.
- He attended and graduated from the University of Texas at Austin.
- He was born in Baton Rouge, Louisiana, but was raised in Fort Worth, Texas, where he attended Arlington Heights High School, playing football and basketball there, graduating high school class of 1968.
- I'm still a Texan although I live here in L.A. If you're born and raised there you can't get the state out of your system. It's pretty much home.
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