Wellie Jackson
Wellie Jackson is a fourth-generation farmer from the Keener community in Sampson County, North Carolina, and owner of Illusion Farms in Clinton, where he raises turkeys for Butterball and previously raised hogs for Prestage Farms. His family raised the 2019 National Thanksgiving Turkey presented at the White House.
· Sampson Independent / N.C. Dept. of Agriculture
Campaign site
Agriculture, Small Business & Healthcare: “I want to help grow the area. I think in the North Carolina Legislature, we need a good, strong Ag voice, small business voice and healthcare voice. We’ve seen the trials and tribulations of the healthcare industry. I’ve seen the trials and tribulations of the Ag and small business industries. I’ve not heard it, I’ve seen it and lived it.”
(Sampson Independent (Dec. 8, 2025)) Government & Transparency: “I want to be transparent and try to interpret the complexities of Raleigh and put it to where the average person could understand it, cause it is a complex system. I am far from understanding everything that’s going on up there, but I’m going to learn and translate it to where the average person can understand it instead of them trying to read the CliffNotes.”
(Sampson Independent (Dec. 8, 2025))