Robert H. Jackson Legal Legacy

Robert Houghwout Jackson

Robert Houghwout Jackson was a jurist and politician who served as Solicitor General, Attorney General, and Supreme Court Justice. Under the F. Roosevelt administration, he supported wartime diplomatic policies such as the Lend-Lease Act from a legal standpoint. After becoming a Supreme Court Justice in 1941, he led the Nuremberg trials as the chief prosecutor for the Allies at the end of World War II. He played a decisive role in punishing Nazi war criminals and establishing the foundations of international criminal law, demonstrating the legitimacy of law and democracy to the world.

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Year	Robert Houghwout Jackson
1892	Birth of Robert Houghwout Jackson (Period: February 13, 1892, Location: Spring Creek Township, Warren County, Pennsylvania, United States. The area is still around Spring Creek and is not an independent city)
1910	Development of political relationship with Franklin D. Roosevelt (Age: 17 years old, Period: 1910s to 1930s, Location: New York, United States)
1913	Admission to the New York State Bar (Robert Houghwout Jackson, Age: 20 years old, Period: 1913, Location: New York, United States)
1914	World War I (Age: 21 years old, Period: 1914-1918, Location: Battlefields centered on Europe, United States)
1916	Marriage (Robert Houghwout Jackson, Irene Alice Gerhardt, Age: 24 years old, Period: April 24, 1916, Location: Albany, New York, United States)
1934	Appointment to key positions in the U.S. Treasury and Justice Departments (Robert Houghwout Jackson, Age: 41 years old, Period: 1934 to 1938, Location: Washington, D.C., United States)
1938	Appointment as United States Solicitor General (Robert Houghwout Jackson, Age: 45 years old, Period: 1938 to 1940, Location: Washington, D.C., United States)
1939	World War II (Age: 46 years old, Period: 1939–1945, Location: Wartime Administration and Domestic Front of the United States)
1940	Appointment as United States Attorney General (Robert Houghwout Jackson, Age: 47 years old, Period: January 18, 1940 to August 25, 1941, Location: Washington, D.C., United States) Legal opinion regarding the Destroyers-for-Bases Agreement (Age: 48 years old, Period: August to September 1940, Location: Washington, D.C. and the Atlantic and Caribbean regions, United States)
1941	Appointment as Associate Justice of the United States Supreme Court (Robert Houghwout Jackson, Age: 49 years old, Period: July 11, 1941 to October 9, 1954, Location: Washington, D.C., United States)
1942	West Virginia State Board of Education v. Barnette (Age: 49 years old, Period: 1942 to 1943, Location: Supreme Court of the United States)
1944	Korematsu v. United States (Age: 51 years old, Period: 1944, Location: Supreme Court of the United States)
1945	Nuremberg International Military Tribunal (Age: 52 years old, Period: 1945 to 1946, Location: Nuremberg, Germany) Appointment as U.S. Chief Prosecutor for the Nuremberg Trials (Robert Houghwout Jackson, Age: 52 years old, Period: 1945 to 1946, Location: London, United Kingdom and Nuremberg, Germany)
1947	Award of the Medal for Merit (Robert Houghwout Jackson, Age: 54 years old, Period: February 7, 1947, Location: United States)
1952	Youngstown Sheet & Tube Co. v. Sawyer (Age: 59 years old, Period: 1952, Location: Supreme Court of the United States)
1954	Final Supreme Court service and death (Robert Houghwout Jackson, Age: 62 years old, Period: March to October 1954, Location: Washington, D.C., United States) Death of Robert Houghwout Jackson (Age: 62 years old, Period: October 9, 1954)

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Group	List
The Wilson Family	Thomas Woodrow Wilson Ellen Louise Axson Edith Bolling Galt Wilson James Woodrow
The Roosevelt Administration	Franklin Delano Roosevelt Anna Eleanor Roosevelt Cordell Hull Claude Augustus Swanson Jesse Holman Jones Robert Houghwout Jackson
Southern politician	George Carter Glass James Francis Byrnes Thomas Terry Connally Claude Denson Pepper Alben William Barkley Byron Patton Harrison John Nance Garner

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