Jackson, Robert Houghwood, born 13-02-1892 in Spring Creek Township, Warren County, Pennsylvania, 
the son of William Eldred Jackson and Angelina Houghwout on his family’s farm to and raised in Frewsburg, New York, Jackson graduated from Frewsburg High School in 1909. After completing the year at Albany Law School, Jackson returned to Jamestown to complete his studies. He passed the New York bar examination in 1913, and then joined a law practice in Jamestown. In 1916, he married Irene Alice Gerhardt, in Albany. 
In 1917, Jackson was recruited to work for Penney, Killeen & Nye, a leading Buffalo firm, primarily defending the International Railway Company in trials and appeals. In late 1918, Jackson was recruited back to Jamestown to serve as the city’s corporation counsel He passed the New York bar examination in 1913 at the age of 21 and set up practice in Jamestown, New York. Over the next 20 years, he became a very successful lawyer in New York State and, through bar association activities, a rising young lawyer nationally. Jackson was appointed to federal office by President Franklin Delano Roosevelt 
in 1934. Jackson was appointed Attorney General by Roosevelt in 1940, replacing Francis “Frank” Murphy, Murphy
the son of William Eldred Jackson and Angelina Houghwout on his family’s farm to and raised in Frewsburg, New York, Jackson graduated from Frewsburg High School in 1909. After completing the year at Albany Law School, Jackson returned to Jamestown to complete his studies. He passed the New York bar examination in 1913, and then joined a law practice in Jamestown. In 1916, he married Irene Alice Gerhardt, in Albany. In 1917, Jackson was recruited to work for Penney, Killeen & Nye, a leading Buffalo firm, primarily defending the International Railway Company in trials and appeals. In late 1918, Jackson was recruited back to Jamestown to serve as the city’s corporation counsel He passed the New York bar examination in 1913 at the age of 21 and set up practice in Jamestown, New York. Over the next 20 years, he became a very successful lawyer in New York State and, through bar association activities, a rising young lawyer nationally. Jackson was appointed to federal office by President Franklin Delano Roosevelt in 1934. Jackson was appointed Attorney General by Roosevelt in 1940, replacing Francis “Frank” Murphy, Murphy
died at age 59 of coronary thrombosis during his sleep at Henry Ford Hospital in Detroit, on 19-07-1949. In 1945, President Harry Ship Truman 
appointed Jackson, who took a leave of absence from the Supreme Court, to serve as U.S. chief of counsel for the prosecution of Nazi war criminals. 
He helped draft the London Charter of the International Military Tribunal, which created the legal basis for the Nuremberg Trials. He then served in Nuremberg, Germany, as United States chief prosecutor at the international Nuremberg trial.
Jackson pursued his prosecutorial role with a great deal of vigor (for instance, referring in arguments to Hermann Goering (did you know) (see Goering Peter) 
as being “half militarist, half gangster”. His opening and closing arguments before the Nuremberg court are widely considered among the best speeches of the 20th century. In the words of defendant, Minister of Armaments and War Production and Hitler’s favourite architect, Albert Speer
: The trial began with the grand, devestating opening by the chief american prosecuter, Justice Robert H Jackson. But I took comfort from one sentence in it which accused the defendants of guilt for the regime’s crimes, but not the German people: However, his cross-examination skills were generally considered weak, and it was in fact British prosecutor David Maxwell-Fyfe, he died age 66, on 27-01-1966, in Sussex, who got the better of Goering (see Goering-Fock) 
and (Emmy Sonnemann) 
in cross-examination rather than Jackson, who was rebuked by the Tribunal for losing his temper during the proceedings.Father Moritz Fuchs 
served in the U.S. Army in Germany during and after World War II. At age 20, Fuchs served as a bodyguard for U.S. Supreme Court Justice Robert H. Jackson during the Nuremberg Trials. Fuchs was the only bodyguard assigned to Jackson and for 18 months, it was his job to protect him 24 hours a day, seven days a week. Father Moritz Fuchs, a priest of the Diocese of Syracuse for 63 years, passed away 19-06-2018. He was 92.
served in the U.S. Army in Germany during and after World War II. At age 20, Fuchs served as a bodyguard for U.S. Supreme Court Justice Robert H. Jackson during the Nuremberg Trials. Fuchs was the only bodyguard assigned to Jackson and for 18 months, it was his job to protect him 24 hours a day, seven days a week. Father Moritz Fuchs, a priest of the Diocese of Syracuse for 63 years, passed away 19-06-2018. He was 92.Death and burial ground of Jackson, Robert Houghwood.
On 30-03-1954, Jackson suffered a massive heart attack. He was confined to the hospital until May 17 when he returned to the court. He remained functioning in his position as Justice until 04-10-1954. On Saturday, 09-10-1954, Jackson suffered a myocardial infarction. At 11:45 a.m. he died at age 62. Funeral services were held in Washington’s National Cathedral and later in Jamestown’s St. Luke’s Church. and is buried on the Cemetery of Maple Grove, Frewsbury New York, in Section 30.
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