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ROBERT H. JACKSON
was born on February 13, 1892, in Spring Creek, Pennsylvania,
and raised in Frewsburg, New York. After a year (1909-1910)
of post-graduate study at Jamestown High School in Jamestown,
New York, he served a year (1910-1911) as an apprentice
in a Jamestown law office. In 1912, he completed a one-year
course of study at Albany Law School and then, the following
year, resumed his law apprenticeship in Jamestown. Jackson,
who never attended college, became a lawyer in 1913. He
then practiced law for twenty years in Jamestown and throughout
western New York State. In 1934, Jackson moved to Washington,
D.C., to become Assistant General Counsel in the Treasury
Department's Bureau of Internal Revenue. From 1936 to
1941, Jackson served successively as Assistant United
States Attorney General, Solicitor General, and Attorney
General of the United States. In the latter position,
he advised President Franklin D. Roosevelt on the legal
aspects of providing destroyers to Great Britain in exchange
for military bases on British territory. President Roosevelt
nominated Jackson to the Supreme Court of the United States
on June 12, 1941. The Senate confirmed the appointment
on July 7, 1941. While on the Court, Jackson was appointed
Chief United States Prosecutor at the International War
Crimes Tribunal in Nuremberg, Germany. Jackson served
on the Supreme Court for thirteen years. He died on October
9, 1954, at the age of sixty-two. |
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