Robert Houghwout Jackson

Positions

• Solicitor General of the United States1938-03-01–1940-01-18
• Attorney General1940-01-18–1941-08-25
• Associate Justice of the Supreme Court of the United States1941-07-11–1954-10-09

Education

• Albany Law School
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Career

Private practice, Jamestown, New York, 1913-1917, 1918-1934; Private practice, Buffalo, New York, 1917-1918; Corporation counsel, Jamestown, New York, 1918-1934; General counsel, Bureau of Internal Revenue, U.S. Department of the Treasury, 1934-1936; Special counsel, U.S. Department of the Treasury, 1935; Special counsel, U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission, 1935; Assistant attorney general, Tax Division, U.S. Department of Justice, 1936-1937; Assistant attorney general, Antitrust Division, U.S. Department of Justice, 1937-1938; Solicitor general of the United States, 1938-1940; Attorney General of the United States, 1940-1941; Chief U.S. prosecutor, Nuremberg Trials, 1945-1946

Biography

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.

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