Jackson Montgomery
Actor History
Walt Willey (1987 to Present)
Lifeline
Birthday is celebrated June 8th [2004]
Occupation
Pine Valley District Attorney (Suspended from duties on December 2nd, 2003)
Attorney in private practice
Volunteer for Habitat for Humanity
Former senior partner of Montgomery and Associates law firm
Former poolboy for the Greenlees
Resides At
Formerly 1421 Plumtree Road, Apartment 5F [Also mentioned as 718 Valley Road]
Formerly Belinda Keefer's old apartment
Formerly in South Carolina
Marital Status
Single/Divorced (Erica Kane; [Married: May 24th, 2005; Divorced: Aug 16th, 2007]
Past Marriages
Laurel Banning (Deceased)
Relatives
Travis Montgomery (brother; deceased)
ChristineMontgomery (sister)
Bianca Montgomery (niece)
Molly Montgomery (niece)
Sean Montgomery (nephew)
Miranda Mona Montgomery (great-niece)
Children
Greenlee Smythe (daughter; with Mary)
Reginald Montgomery (son; via adoption)
Lily Montgomery (daughter; via adoption)
Flings & Affairs
Mary Smythe (Lovers; June 22nd, 1976 [Month was later changed to May])
Erica Kane
Brooke English
Angelique Marick
Laurel Banning
Erica Kane
Mary Smythe (Lovers)
Erica Kane (Engaged)
Crimes Committed
As his brother's campaign finance manager, he was found guilty of misappropriation of funds .
Aiding and abetting Laurel in covering up the death of her husband, Denny.
Assault; clobbered Eliot Freeman at the community center.
Threatened to plant evidence against Shannon, Mindy and Heather. [May 8th, 2001]
Attemped to strangle Michael after he found out he tried to rape Erica [Jun 2003]
Theft; Stole a gun from one of the evidence boxes at the Pine Valley Police Department. [Aug 25th, 2003]
Investigated for misconduct while serving as District Attorney [Dec 2nd, 2003]
Admitted to planting heroin in Michael's condo. [Arrested Jan 29th, 2004]
Maladies and Hospitalizations
Mystery illness that was never diagnosed in the 1990s.
Shot in the chest, resulting in massive blood loss and cardiac arrest. [Apr 29th, 2003]
Brief Character History
Jackson came to Pine Valley to help run his brother Travis' campaign for Senate. Jack had accepted campaign bribes and juggled Travis' books in order to lose the campaign to repay Travis for a childhood event that led to their sister, Christine's death. Jack had always been blamed for the boating accident, when in reality, it had been Travis who caused her death. Travis was always the smart one and Jack, the black sheep in their southern, matriarchal family. Jack fell in love with his sister-in-law, Erica and the two had an affair. When Travis found out he divorced Erica and won sole custody of Bianca, their daughter. Erica's love for Jackson died when he refused to lie about their affair on the witness stand at the custody trial. Jackson and Erica's love was rekindled several times, but none were permanent. Jackson united with Brooke English during the time of Dimitri and Angelique Marick's problems. They had a brief romance and have been good friends ever since.
One night while driving, Jackson's headlights came upon a gorgeous blonde Laurel Banning (the original Laurel. The subsequent Laurel was a brunette). She later came to him for help, they fell in love and moved in together. Jackson came to love Lily,
Laurel's autistic daughter by her previous demented husband, Denny. When Denny came to Pine Valley and threatened Laurel' life and custody of Lily, Laurel killed him in self-defense. Jackson helped Laurel hide the body in the Marick mine shaft. Upon the discovery of the body, the truth came out and Jack was disbarred for 6 months. Laurel's previous history as an embezzler and thief in order to keep Lily in a special school for the autistic was kept hidden until Laurel's embezzling in the Mason Foundation (Natalie's Foundation) caused Natalie to lose her life. Trevor became very close to Laurel as she tried to help him with his anguish over Natalie's death. They fell in love. Jackson graciously bowed out and divorced Laurel leaving her free to marry Trevor. Being free with time on his hands, Jackson turned to his second love, the law. He took on many high publicity cases, i.e. the Louie Greco trial, and thus won the election for Pine Valley's District Attorney.
Jackson was Erica's attorney for her kidnapping trial, even though she was sent to prison, Jack still had a place in his heart (as always) for Erica. Jack visited her often and stood by her side during the tough times. When Bianca came to Pine Valley and diagnosed with anorexia nervosa, Jack made sure he told Erica of her health progress. When Erica was released from prison, Jack declared his love for Erica (again), and Erica could not be any happier. Erica and Jack's love life took a turn for the worse when Erica's former beau, Mike Roy, returned to Pine Valley from the dead. Mike had been forced to stage his death over a dozen years prior as part of an FBI project. Erica still had deep feelings for the love she thought she'd lost. For months Erica was torn between Mike and Jack. Jack fought long and hard for the woman he loved, but he could not forgive Erica for sleeping with Mike as a, what he called, "the obligatory horizontal goodbye." Erica had chosen Jack, but Jack hadn't chosen her. Erica tried her best to win back Jack, but he wouldn't take her back.
Jack remained idle for quite some time, appearing as a comforting and understanding uncle to Bianca after she "came out." Jack returned to the limelight in the winter of 2001 as the lead prosecutor in a murder case against Erica Kane. Erica stood trial for killing Frankie Stone. Jack seemed to take his personal frustration out on Erica and the trial quickly became little more than a three-ring circus. Erica was found not guilty and Jack was left with a slightly tarnished reputation. Afterwards, Erica tried to cozy up to Jack again, but Jack adamantly denied any and all of Erica's advances.
Jack eventually could no longer deny his feelings for Erica, and not long after adopting teenager Reggie Porter, Jack and Erica married in a beautiful ceremony. Jack began to settle into life as a father (not only did he have Reggie and recently discovered daughter Greenlee, but Lily also came home), but was furious when Lily got involved with Jonathan Lavery.
