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In 1932, Jackson was active in Franklin Roosevelt's presidential campaign as chairman of an organization called Democratic Lawyers for Roosevelt. (Another Robert H. Jackson was also active in the Roosevelt campaign. That Jackson (1880–1973) was Secretary of the Democratic National Committee, and was a resident of New Hampshire.)
Jackson began his career as corporation counsel of Jamestown, New York, and was chosen by Governor Franklin D. Roosevelt, in 1930, to become a member of the New York State Commission to Investigate the Administration of Justice.
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In 1932, he got involved in Franklin Roosevelt’s presidential campaign. He served as the chairman of an organization which was named Democratic Lawyers for Roosevelt. After Roosevelt was elected as the president of US, Robert H. Jackson was made general counsel to the Internal Revenue Bureau.
President Roosevelt nominated Jackson to the Supreme Court of the United States on June 12, 1941. The Senate confirmed the appointment on July 7, 1941. While on the Court, Jackson was appointed Chief United States Prosecutor at the International War Crimes Tribunal in Nuremberg, Germany.
Feb 15, 2012 · The Robert H. Jackson Center was established in 2001 to honor and advance the legacy of U.S. Supreme Court Justice and Chief U.S. Prosecutor at Nuremberg, Robert H. Jackson. Jackson came from a humble background, was largely self-taught, and never ran for political office- yet, he became one of the greatest statesmen of the 20th century.
It then focuses on how a self-proclaimed “country lawyer” from upstate New York— and later Supreme Court justice—named Robert H. Jackson began to reinvigorate antitrust enforcement during Franklin Roosevelt’s second term, in what some call the “Second New Deal.” Jackson’s tenure at the Antitrust Division, however, was.
Feb 23, 2016 · Four of whom qualify as some of the most influential jurists to ever wear the black robes: Hugo Black, Felix Frankfurter, William O. Douglas, and Robert H. Jackson. In his book “Scorpion: The Battles and Triumphs of FDR’s Great Supreme Court Justices” Noah Feldman describes them this way: “Four more different men could hardly be imagined.
