Robert Jackson

Robert Jackson

Historical Figure
Nationality:	United States
Date of Birth:	1892
Date of Death:	1954
Cause of Death:	Myocardial infarction
Occupation:	Lawyer, Judge
Parents:	William Eldred Jackson, Angelina Houghwout
Spouse:	Irene Alice Gerhardt
Children:	William, Mary
Political Party:	Democratic Party
Political Office(s):	Attorney General for the United States, Associate Justice of the Supreme Court of the United States
Fictional Appearances:

The Man With the Iron Heart _{POD: May 29, 1942;} _{Relevant POD: May, 1945}
Type of Appearance:	Contemporary reference

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 HeartEdit

Robert Jackson was severely injured when the German Freedom Front destroyed the Palace of Justice at Nuremberg in December 1945. As more than 200 people were killed in the explosion, Jackson was rather lucky in the short-term.^[1]

ReferencesEdit

↑ The Man With the Iron Heart, pg. 116.

Political offices (OTL)
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 U.S. Supreme Court 1941–1954	Succeeded by John Marshall Harlan II

[0] The Man With the Iron Heart, pg. 116.

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Robert Jackson in The Man With the Iron HeartEdit

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