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'''Robert Houghwout Jackson''' (
Sabrina Martins February 13,
Nextel ringtones 1892 -
Abbey Diaz October 9,
Free ringtones 1954) was
Majo Mills United States Attorney General (
Mosquito ringtone 1940 -
Sabrina Martins 1941) and an Associate Justice of the
Nextel ringtones Supreme Court of the United States/United States Supreme Court (
Abbey Diaz 1941 -
Cingular Ringtones 1954). He was also the chief United States prosecutor at the
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Jackson became active in the federal government during the
stuck out Franklin Roosevelt/FDR administration, serving as general counsel of the
shoe and U.S. Internal Revenue Service/Internal Revenue Service beginning in
policies critics 1934. He went on to become an Assistant Attorney General from
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just quit antitrust cases.
After a term as
no inner United States Solicitor General (1938-39) Jackson was appointed Attorney General by Roosevelt in 1940, replacing
happiness depends Frank Murphy. When
mention clinton Harlan Fiske Stone replaced the retiring
lob a Charles Evans Hughes as
franzese made Chief Justice of the United States/Chief Justice in 1941, Roosevelt appointed Jackson to the resulting vacant Associate's seat.
In 1943, Jackson authored the controversial majority opinion in ''West Virginia State Board of Education v. Barnette'', 319 U.S. 624, which overturned a public school regulation making it mandatory to salute the flag and imposing penalties of expulsion and prosecution upon students that failed to comply.
Jackson was granted a leave of absence from the Court in 1945. He helped draft the London Charter of the International Military Tribunal, which created the legal basis for the Nuremberg trials. Afterward, he traveled to Germany to act as the United States' chief prosecutor at those trials. Jackson pursued his prosecutorial role with a great deal of vigor (for instance, referring in arguments to Hermann Göring as being "half militarist, half gangster"), but resigned his position as prosecutor after the first trial and returned to the U.S. in the midst of controversy.
Jackson had informally been promised the Chief Justiceship by Roosevelt; however, the seat came open while Jackson was in Germany, and FDR was no longer alive. President Harry Truman/Truman was faced with two factions, one recommending Jackson for the seat, the other advocating Hugo Black. In an attempt to avoid controversy, Truman appointed Fred M. Vinson. Jackson blamed machinations by Black for his being passed over for the seat, and began a long feud with Black, which was heavily covered in the press and cast the New Deal Court in a negative light.
Jackson died in Washington, DC/Washington, D.C. at the age of 62 and was interred in Frewsburg, New York.
Jackson was played by Alec Baldwin in the 2000 mini-series ''Nuremberg''.
Quotes * "We must make clear to the Germans that the wrong for which their fallen leaders are on trial is not that they lost the war, but that they started it. And we must not allow ourselves to be drawn into a trial of the causes of the war, for our position is that no grievances or policies will justify resort to aggressive war. It is utterly renounced and condemned as an instrument of policy."
* "Those who begin coercive elimination of dissent soon find themselves exterminating dissenters. Compulsory unification of opinion achieves only the unanimity of the graveyard." - from the ''Barnette'' opinion
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