Robert Houghwout Jackson (February 13, 1892 – October 9, 1954) was United States Attorney General (1940–1941) and an Associate Justice of the United States Supreme Court (1941–1954). He was also the chief United States prosecutor at the Nuremberg Trials. A "county-seat lawyer", he remains the last Supreme Court justice appointed who did not graduate from any law school, although he did attend Albany Law School in Albany, New York for one year.
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| - Robert Houghwout Jackson (February 13, 1892 – October 9, 1954) was United States Attorney General (1940–1941) and an Associate Justice of the United States Supreme Court (1941–1954). He was also the chief United States prosecutor at the Nuremberg Trials. A "county-seat lawyer", he remains the last Supreme Court justice appointed who did not graduate from any law school, although he did attend Albany Law School in Albany, New York for one year.
- Born in Ecclefechan, Dumfriesshire. Following study at St Mark's College, Chelsea, he worked as a teacher in Lancashire (he married Ellen Hesmondhalgh Smithies in Burnley in 1866) and Cheshire before becoming resident in Forest Hill by the late 1870s with a post in a London School Board school. By 1911 he was retired from teaching and was a company secretary. Mention here [1]
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| - Born in Ecclefechan, Dumfriesshire. Following study at St Mark's College, Chelsea, he worked as a teacher in Lancashire (he married Ellen Hesmondhalgh Smithies in Burnley in 1866) and Cheshire before becoming resident in Forest Hill by the late 1870s with a post in a London School Board school. By 1911 he was retired from teaching and was a company secretary. When the Metropolitan Borough of Lewisham was created in 1900, Jackson was elected to the new borough council as a Moderate Party councillor for Forest Hill ward. Mayor of Lewisham 1913-15. He was largely responsible for the raising of the 11th (Lewisham) Battalion, Queen's Own Royal West Kent Regiment in World War One. During the war he was appointed to fill a casual vacancy in the representation of Lewisham on the London County Council in April 1916. When council elections resumed following the war in 1919, he was elected as a Municipal Reform Party councillor for the new seat of Lewisham West, holding the seat until his death. Mention here [1]
- Robert Houghwout Jackson (February 13, 1892 – October 9, 1954) was United States Attorney General (1940–1941) and an Associate Justice of the United States Supreme Court (1941–1954). He was also the chief United States prosecutor at the Nuremberg Trials. A "county-seat lawyer", he remains the last Supreme Court justice appointed who did not graduate from any law school, although he did attend Albany Law School in Albany, New York for one year.
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