Robert H. Jackson
Robert H. Jackson was an US Supreme Court justice from 1941 to 1954. Born February 13, 1892, in Spring Creek Township. Died October 9, 1954, in Washington, D.C.. Positions held include Associate Justice of the Supreme Court of the United States (1941–1954), United States Attorney General (1940–1941) and Solicitor General of the United States (1938–1940). Educated at Albany Law School and Jamestown High School.
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- Described as
- US Supreme Court justice from 1941 to 1954 (1892–1954)
- Other names
- Robert Houghwout Jackson
- Born
- February 13, 1892 · 8 references
- Died
- October 9, 1954 · 7 references
- Born in
- Spring Creek Township
- Died in
- Washington, D.C. · 2 references
- Buried in
- Frewsburg
- Citizen of
- United States
- Occupation
- judge · 2 references; lawyer; politician · 1 reference; jurist · 1 reference
- Positions held
- Associate Justice of the Supreme Court of the United States (1941–1954); United States Attorney General (1940–1941); Solicitor General of the United States (1938–1940); Chief of Counsel for Prosecution of Axis Criminality (1945–1946) · 1 reference
- Political party
- Democratic Party
- Education
- Albany Law School · 1 reference; Jamestown High School
- Children
- William E. Jackson · 1 reference
- Lived in
- Nuremberg (1945–) · 1 reference
- Wikipedias with a page
- 39
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What Wikipedia says · copied November 14, 2026 · revision 1385115017
Robert Houghwout Jackson (February 13, 1892 – October 9, 1954) was an American lawyer, jurist, and politician who served as an associate justice of the U.S. Supreme Court from 1941 until his death in 1954. He had previously served as United States Solicitor General and United States Attorney General, and is the only person to have held all three of those offices. Jackson was also notable for his work at the Nuremberg trials prosecuting Nazi war criminals following World War II. Jackson developed a reputation as one of the best writers on the Supreme Court and one of the most committed to enforcing due process as protection from overreaching federal agencies.
Jackson was the most recent U.S. Supreme Court justice who did not earn a law degree. He was admitted to the bar via the older tradition of an internship under an established lawyer ("reading law") after studying at Albany Law School for a year. Jackson is recognized for his advice that, "Any lawyer worth his salt will tell the suspect, in no uncertain terms, to make no statement to the police under any circumstances", and for his aphorism describing the Supreme Court, "We are not final because we are infallible, but we are infallible only because we are final."
He was viewed as a moderate liberal, and is known for his dissents in Terminiello v. City of Chicago, Zorach v. Clauson, Everson v. Board of Education, and Korematsu v. United States, as well as his majority opinion in West Virginia State Board of Education v. Barnette and his concurring opinion in Youngstown Sheet & Tube Co. v. Sawyer. Justice Antonin Scalia, who occupied the seat once held by Jackson, considered Jackson to be "the best legal stylist of the 20th century".
- Born, in its opening lines
- February 13, 1892
- Died, in its opening lines
- October 9, 1954
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