1892-1954
Associate Justice of U.S. Supreme Court, U.S. Representative and Chief Counsel to the Nuremberg War Crime

Small-Town Lawyer.

Robert Houghwout Jackson was born on 13 February 1892 in Spring Creek, Pennsylvania. He graduated from high school in 1910 and entered Albany Law School in 1911 but was forced to leave after one year due to a lack of funds and never obtained a law degree. He had previously clerked in the law office of Frank Mott, his mother's cousin, and resumed his clerkship after leaving law school. He was admitted to the New York bar in 1913, during an era when one could "read for the bar" after working for a period as a clerk to a lawyer or judge. During the next twenty years, as he ran a typical small-town law practice, he became well known as a leading trial lawyer.

New Dealer.

In 1930 Gov. Franklin D...