“That four great nations, flushed with victory and stung with injury stay the hand of vengeance and voluntarily submit their captive enemies to the judgment of the law is one of the most significant tributes that Power has ever paid to Reason.” — from Jackson's Opening Statement before the International Military Tribunal

Robert H. Jackson in Government Service


Date

Position

1934-1936

Treasury Department, Bureau of Internal Revenue

1936

Assistant Attorney General, Tax Division

1937

Assistant Attorney General, Antitrust Division

1938-1940

Solicitor General

1940-1941

Attorney General

1941-1954

Associate Justice of the Supreme Court

1945-1946

United States Chief Nuremberg War Crimes Prosecutor