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Pennsylvania & New York Upbringing
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Robert Houghwout Jackson was born in Spring Creek, Pennsylvania on February 13, 1892. Five years later his family moved to Frewsburg, New York, a…
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Law Practice
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Robert H. Jackson took the New York State Bar exam at age 21, and became a prominent trial lawyer in Jamestown. He spent the first forty-two years of…
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U.S. Government Service
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In 1931, Governor Franklin D. Roosevelt appoints Jackson to the Commission to Investigate the Administration of Justice in New York State. In 1934…
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Supreme Court of the United States
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As the Supreme Court recessed for the summer on June 2, 1941, Chief Justice Charles Evans Hughes announced his intention to retire. On June 12th,…
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Nuremberg
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On May 2, 1945, President Harry S. Truman appointed Associate Supreme Court Justice Robert H. Jackson as chief prosecutor for the United States in the…