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Born on Eldred Hill, Spring Creek, Pennsylvania in Warren County, Justice Robert H. Jackson goes to Washington, DC. He cut his teeth on the beauty of Eldred Hill, where the best cherry wood grows in the USA and clean sparkling streams flow. A more rural setting is not to be found than in the hills of Spring Creek Township.
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. He is the last Supreme Court justice not to have graduated from law school.
Born in Spring Creek Township, Warren Co., Pennsylvania, and raised in Frewsburg, New York. Jackson graduated from Frewsburg High School Jamestown High School in Jamestown, New York. Jackson never attended college.
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