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Laban Jackson

business executive

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionAug 31, 2026
Entity authorityQ6466730
Source-derived summary

Laban P. Jackson Jr. (born 1943) is an American businessman who is the chairman and CEO of Clear Creek Properties. He was a director of The Home Depot from 2004–2008, and IPIX from 2000–2006.

Career

In 1965, Jackson graduated from the United States Military Academy. From 1987–1992, Jackson was a director of the Federal Reserve Bank of Cleveland. From 1993, he served as a Director of Bank One Corporation until 2004 when it was acquired by JPMorgan Chase. Since 2004, he has been an Independent Director of JPMorgan Chase.

In March 2020, JPMorgan announced in a regulatory filing that Jackson had decided to retire from the board when his term expires on the eve of the 2020 annual meeting of shareholders.

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Begin with the source’s own compact description: “Laban Jackson” is business executive. The dossier treats that line as a proposition to test through Laban, Jackson and business, not as a finished interpretation.

Editorial reviewA concise reference frame for defining the subject, testing terminology and identifying the institution closest to the evidence. The current lead gives the account dated anchors—1943, 2004, 2008, 2000—that can be checked directly. The linked authority record independently contributes the date 1942-01-01. For this dossier, Laban, Jackson and business is the immediate research focus.
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Vocabulary and entity names are the principal evidence signals here, because they determine the precision of every later search. The source revision retrieved here is dated Aug 31, 2026. The linked authority identifier is Q6466730. 1 of 1 selected statements include explicit references; 0 carry qualifiers and 0 use preferred rank. The first chronological checks are 1943, 2004, 2008 and 2000.

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This entry incorporates text from Laban Jackson” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.