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Robert H. Jackson
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Beautiful engraved Supreme Court card signed by Justice Jackson
Robert Houghwout Jackson, 1892–1954. Associate Justice, United States Supreme Court, 1941–1954; chief United States prosecutor, Nuremberg War Crimes Trials, 1945–1946. 3¼" x 4¼" engraved Supreme Court card inscribed and signed, Best wishes from / Robert H. Jackson.
This is as nice a card as one will find. Jackson has inscribed and signed it in black fountain pen.
A talented Democrat, Jackson practiced law, was active in politics, and served briefly in New York state government before Governor Franklin D. Roosevelt was elected president in 1932. After he entered the White House, Roosevelt soon brought Jackson to Washington, D.C. Jackson served successively as general counsel for the Internal Revenue Service (1934–1936), assistant attorney general (1936–1937), Solicitor General (1938–1940), and Attorney General (1940–1941).
When Chief Justice Charles Evans Hughes retired in 1941, Roosevelt promoted Associate Justice Harlan Fiske Stone to Chief Justice and appointed Jackson an Associate Justice. Jackson remained on the Supreme Court until his death in 1954. His opinions are some of the most eloquent in the Court's history.
After World War II, Jackson helped to establish a new principle of international law: that those who commit war crimes or crimes against humanity can be tried and held personally accountable by an international tribunal. For months, Jackson met with representatives of Great Britain, France, and the Soviet Union to draft the charter and establish the procedure for the Nuremberg war crimes tribunal. Once the tribunal convened, Jackson served as the chief United States prosecutor.
Jackson's autograph material is available, but it is not common, and is collected for Jacksonʼs roles as a Roosevelt New Dealer, as a Justice, and as the lead American prosecutor at Nuremberg. Jackson's signed Supreme Court cards are somewhat scarce, and more so in this condition, which is extra fine.
Unframed.
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