William Henry Jackson Jr. ’68

Hank died July 13, 2024, in Northampton, Mass., from complications of Alzheimer’s disease.

He came to us from Lockport (N.Y.) Senior High School and attended Princeton on a Navy ROTC scholarship. Hank rowed freshman crew, ate at Tower Club, and honed his love of literature: It was at Princeton that he fell in love with Mark Twain. It was Mark Twain, after all, who said, “I like a good story well told. That is the reason I am sometimes forced to tell them myself.”

Hank served in Vietnam aboard the USNS Barrett and attended the Naval Justice School, leading him to Vanderbilt Law School; he graduated in 1975. He moved to New England and after a brief stint as town prosecutor for Hanover, N.H., he began a decades-long career as an antitrust and product-liability attorney. He and his wife, Susan, settled in Woodstock, Conn., and raised two children, Sarah and Benjamin. Hank also had a son from his first marriage, William III.

The challenges of growing old darkened his doorstep throughout much of his later years, Alzheimer’s being a cruel disease that robs us of our stories.

The class extends its deepest sympathies to his children, his four grandchildren, and his two brothers.