Jackson, Robert Houghwout 1892-1954 creator mixed material monographic eng 75,015 259 1 21 26 110 Correspondence, memoranda, family papers, legal file, subject file, speeches, writings, financial papers, transcripts of oral history interviews, biographical papers, photographs, and other papers documenting Jackson's legal career. Includes material from his private law practice in Jamestown, N.Y., relating to railroad, public utility, and textile mill cases there and a typhoid carrier case involving the Prudential Insurance Company of America. Jackson's years as assistant general counsel at the U.S. Bureau of Internal Revenue are documented by files relating to a case he prosecuted against Andrew W. Mellon, studies on the relationship of wealth to income taxes paid, and files relating to cases he tried while on detail to the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission relating to the Public Utility Holdings Company Act of 1935. Jackson's relationship with Franklin D. Roosevelt is reflected in his files (1936-1941) as assistant attorney general for the tax and antitrust divisions and as solicitor general and attorney general at the Justice Dept., particularly in cases concerning the implementation of New Deal programs and the constitutionality of the Social Security Act and in messages to Congress that Jackson helped Roosevelt draft. Other cases relate to the steel industry, automobile financing, oil prices, control of the aluminum industry by the Aluminum Company of America, and operations of the fuel, milk, motion picture, and utility industries. The approach of World War II is documented in cases relating to aircraft production, intelligence gathering, immigration and naturalization, investigation of subversive activities, selective service system, price stabilization and economic controls, taxation of excess profits by war material producers, embargo, and neutrality. Jackson's Supreme Court files (1941-1954) include his opinions on cases involving Jehovah's Witnesses' civil liberties, treason, treatment of Japanese-Americans during World War II, Communist Party of the United States of America, taxing powers of states, government aid to private schools, and racial segregation in public school systems. Also included are Jackson's diary and working papers as head of the U.S. team for the prosecution at the Nuremberg war crime trials (1945-1946). Correspondents include Sidney S. Alderman, Thurman Wesley Arnold, Wendell Berge, John L. Blair, Ernest Cawcroft, Homer S. Cummings, Gordon E. Dean, William O. Douglas, John E. Durkin, Charles Fairman, Felix Frankfurter, Whitney R. Harris, J. Edgar Hoover. Charles A. Horsky, Robert M. W. Kempner, Arthur Alden Kimball, Alfred A. Knopf, Frank Murphy, C. George Niebank, Stanley Forman Reed, Franklin D. Roosevelt, Charles B. Sears, Robert G. Storey, Herbert Bayard Swope, Telford Taylor, Philip J. Wickser, and John H. Wright. Letters of Jackson's son, William E. Jackson, and daughter, Mary Craighill, and of other family members are also included. Open to research. Classified, in part. Restrictions may apply to unprocessed material. Microfilm of the Nuremberg War Crimes File, containers 95-106, available, nos. 22,796 & 22,872. Microfilm edition produced from originals in the Manuscript Division. Washington, D.C. : Library of Congress Photoduplication Service, 2005. A book, Extermination of Polish Jews; Album of Pictures, by the Central Jewish Historical Committee transferred to Library of Congress General Collection. Maps transferred to Library of Congress Geography and Map Division. Motion picture films and sound recordings transferred to Library of Congress Motion Picture, Broadcasting and Recorded Sound Division. U.S. Supreme Court justice, attorney general, and solicitor general, and lawyer. Collection material in English. Finding aid available in the Library of Congress Manuscript Reading Room and at http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.mss/eadmss.ms003002 Alderman, Sidney S. (Sidney Sherrill) 1892- Correspondence Arnold, Thurman Wesley 1891-1969 Correspondence Berge, Wendell 1903-1955 Correspondence Blair, John L. (John Leo) 1888-1962 Correspondence Cawcroft, Ernest Correspondence Craighill, Mary Correspondence Cummings, Homer S. (Homer Stillé) 1870-1956 Correspondence Dean, Gordon E 1905-1958 Correspondence Douglas, William O. (William Orville) 1898-1980 Correspondence Durkin, John E Correspondence Fairman, Charles 1897- Correspondence Frankfurter, Felix 1882-1965 Correspondence Harris, Whitney R Correspondence Hoover, J. Edgar (John Edgar) 1895-1972 Correspondence Horsky, Charles A. (Charles Antone) 1910-1997 Correspondence Jackson, William E. (William Eldred) Correspondence Kempner, Robert M. W. (Robert Max Wasilii) 1899- Correspondence Kimball, Arthur Alden 1908- Correspondence Knopf, Alfred A 1892-1984 Correspondence Mellon, Andrew W. (Andrew William) 1855-1937 Murphy, Frank 1890-1949 Correspondence Niebank, C. George (Cornelius George) 1925- Correspondence Reed, Stanley Forman 1884-1980 Correspondence Roosevelt, Franklin D. (Franklin Delano) 1882-1945 Correspondence Sears, Charles B. (Charles Brown) 1870-1950 Correspondence Storey, Robert G. (Robert Gerald) 1893-1981 Correspondence Swope, Herbert Bayard 1882-1958 Correspondence Taylor, Telford Correspondence Wickser, Philip J. (Philip John) 1887-1949 Correspondence Wright, John H 1867-1951 Correspondence Aluminum Company of America. Communist Party of the United States of America. Prudential Insurance Company of America. United States. Bureau of Internal Revenue. United States. Department of Justice. United States. Department of Justice. Antitrust Division. United States. Department of Justice. Tax Division. United States. Securities and Exchange Commission. United States. Selective Service System. United States. Solicitor General. United States. Supreme Court. Aircraft industry Law and legislation United States Aluminum industry and trade Law and legislation United States Automobile industry and trade Finance United States Constitutional law United States Dairy laws United States Embargo United States Emigration and immigration Law and legislation United States Fuel trade Law and legislation United States Government aid to private schools United States Income tax United States Japanese Americans Evacuation and relocation, 1942-1945 Jehovah's Witnesses Legal status, laws, etc United States Law United States Motion picture industry Law and legislation United States Naturalization United States Neutrality United States New Deal, 1933-1939 Nuremberg War Crime Trials, Nuremberg, Germany, 1946-1949 Petroleum products Prices United States Practice of law New York (State) Jamestown Price maintenance United States Public utilities Law and legislation New York (State) Public utilities Law and legislation United States Railroads Law and legislation New York (State) School integration United States Segregation in education United States Social security Law and legislation United States Steel industry and trade Law and legislation United States Surplus military property United States Taxation United States States Textile industry Law and legislation New York (State) Treason United States Typhoid fever New York (State) Wealth United States World War, 1939-1945 Economic aspects United States World War, 1939-1945 Secret service World War, 1939-1945 United States Cabinet officers Jurists Lawyers Public officials mm 83061408 hdl:loc.mss/eadmss.ms003002 hdl:loc.mss/eadmss.ms003002.3 http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.mss/eadmss.ms003002 http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.mss/eadmss.ms003002.3 Open to research. Classified, in part. Restrictions may apply to unprocessed material. DLC 830728 20260227111720.0 mm 83061408