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Robert Houghwout Jackson (February 13, 1892 – October 9, 1954) was United States Attorney General (1940–1941) and an Associate Justice of the United States Supreme Court (1941–1954). He was also the chief United States prosecutor at the Nuremberg Trials. A "county-seat lawyer", he remains the last Supreme Court justice appointed who did not graduate from any law school, although he did attend Albany Law School in Albany, New York for one year.
Robert Jackson in The Man With the Iron Heart[]
Robert Jackson was severely injured when the German Freedom Front destroyed the Palace of Justice at Nuremberg in November 1945. As more than 200 people were killed in the explosion, Jackson was rather lucky in the short-term.[1]
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- ↑ The Man With the Iron Heart, pg. 116.
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Preceded by Stanley Forman Reed |
United States Solicitor General 1938–1940 |
Succeeded by Francis Biddle |
Preceded by Frank Murphy |
United States Attorney General 1940–1941 |
Succeeded by Francis Biddle |
Preceded by Harlan Fiske Stone |
Associate Justice of the United States Supreme Court 1941–1954 |
Succeeded by John Marshall Harlan II |
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