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100 1 $aJackson, Robert Houghwout,$d1892-1954.
245 00 $aRobert Houghwout Jackson papers,$f1816-1983$g(bulk 1934-1954).
300 $a75,015$fitems.
300 $a259$fcontainers plus$a1$fclassified and$a21$foversize.
300 $a26$fmicrofilm reels.
300 $a110$flinear feet.
506 0 $aOpen to research.
506 1 $aClassified, in part.
520 8 $aCorrespondence, 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.
520 8 $aJackson'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.
520 8 $aJackson'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).
520 8 $aCorrespondents 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.
530 $aMicrofilm of the Nuremberg War Crimes File, containers 95-106, available,$dnos. 22,796 & 22,872.
533 $aMicrofilm edition produced from originals in the Manuscript Division.$bWashington, D.C. :$cLibrary of Congress Photoduplication Service,$d2005.
541 $cGift and deposit converted to gift,$aMary Jackson Craighill, William E. Jackson, and other members of the Jackson family,$d1983-1998.
541 $cTransfer,$aLibrary of Congress Prints and Photographs Division,$d1996.
544 $3A book, Extermination of Polish Jews; Album of Pictures, by the Central Jewish Historical Committee$etransferred to$aLibrary of Congress General Collection.
544 $3Maps$etransferred to$aLibrary of Congress Geography and Map Division.
544 $3Motion picture films and sound recordings$etransferred to$aLibrary of Congress Motion Picture, Broadcasting and Recorded Sound Division.
545 0 $aU.S. Supreme Court justice, attorney general, and solicitor general, and lawyer.
546 $aCollection material in English.
555 8 $aFinding aid available in the Library of Congress Manuscript Reading Room and on Internet.
600 10 $aAlderman, Sidney S.$q(Sidney Sherrill),$db. 1892$vCorrespondence.
600 10 $aArnold, Thurman Wesley,$d1891-1969$vCorrespondence.
600 10 $aBerge, Wendell,$d1903-1955$vCorrespondence.
600 10 $aBlair, John L.$q(John Leo),$d1888-1962$vCorrespondence.
600 10 $aCawcroft, Ernest$vCorrespondence.
600 10 $aCraighill, Mary$vCorrespondence.
600 10 $aCummings, Homer S.$q(Homer Stillé),$d1870-1956$vCorrespondence.
600 10 $aDean, Gordon E.,$d1905-1958$vCorrespondence.
600 10 $aDouglas, William O.$q(William Orville),$d1898-1980$vCorrespondence.
600 10 $aDurkin, John E.$vCorrespondence.
600 10 $aFairman, Charles,$d1897-$vCorrespondence.
600 10 $aFrankfurter, Felix,$d1882-1965$vCorrespondence.
600 10 $aHarris, Whitney R.$vCorrespondence.
600 10 $aHoover, J. Edgar$q(John Edgar),$d1895-1972$vCorrespondence.
600 10 $aHorsky, Charles A.$q(Charles Antone),$d1910-1997$vCorrespondence.
600 10 $aJackson, William E.$q(William Eldred)$vCorrespondence.
600 10 $aKempner, Robert M. W.$q(Robert Max Wasilii),$d1899-$vCorrespondence.
600 10 $aKimball, Arthur Alden,$d1908-$vCorrespondence.
600 10 $aKnopf, Alfred A.,$d1892-1984$vCorrespondence.
600 10 $aMellon, Andrew W.$q(Andrew William),$d1855-1937.
600 10 $aMurphy, Frank,$d1890-1949$vCorrespondence.
600 10 $aNiebank, C. George$q(Cornelius George),$d1925-$vCorrespondence.
600 10 $aReed, Stanley Forman,$d1884-1980$vCorrespondence.
600 10 $aRoosevelt, Franklin D.$q(Franklin Delano),$d1882-1945$vCorrespondence.
600 10 $aSears, Charles B.$q(Charles Brown),$d1870-1950$vCorrespondence.
600 10 $aStorey, Robert G.$q(Robert Gerald),$d1893-1981$vCorrespondence.
600 10 $aSwope, Herbert Bayard,$d1882-1958$vCorrespondence.
600 10 $aTaylor, Telford$vCorrespondence.
600 10 $aWickser, Philip J.$q(Philip John),$d1887-1949$vCorrespondence.
600 10 $aWright, John H.,$d1867-1951$vCorrespondence.
610 20 $aAluminum Company of America.
610 20 $aCommunist Party of the United States of America.
610 20 $aPrudential Insurance Company of America.
610 10 $aUnited States.$bBureau of Internal Revenue.
610 10 $aUnited States.$bDept. of Justice.
610 10 $aUnited States.$bDept. of Justice.$bAntitrust Division.
610 10 $aUnited States.$bDept. of Justice.$bTax Division.
610 10 $aUnited States.$bSecurities and Exchange Commission.
610 10 $aUnited States.$bSelective Service System.
610 10 $aUnited States.$bSolicitor General.
610 10 $aUnited States.$bSupreme Court.
650 10 $aAircraft industry$xLaw and legislation$zUnited States.
650 0 $aAluminum industry and trade$xLaw and legislation$zUnited States.
650 10 $aAutomobile industry and trade$xFinance$zUnited States.
650 0 $aConstitutional law$zUnited States.
650 0 $aDairy laws$zUnited States.
650 0 $aEmbargo$zUnited States.
650 0 $aEmigration and immigration$xLaw and legislation$zUnited States.
650 0 $aFuel trade$xLaw and legislation$zUnited States.
650 0 $aGovernment aid to private schools$zUnited States.
650 0 $aIncome tax$zUnited States.
650 0 $aJapanese Americans$xEvacuation and relocation, 1942-1945.
650 0 $aJehovah's Witnesses$xLegal status, laws, etc.$zUnited States.
650 0 $aLaw$zUnited States.
650 0 $aMotion picture industry$xLaw and legislation$zUnited States.
650 0 $aNaturalization$zUnited States.
650 0 $aNeutrality$zUnited States.
650 0 $aNew Deal, 1933-1939.
650 0 $aNuremberg War Crime Trials, Nuremberg, Germany, 1946-1949.
650 0 $aPetroleum products$xPrices$zUnited States.
650 0 $aPractice of law$zNew York (State)$zJamestown.
650 0 $aPrice maintenance$zUnited States.
650 0 $aPublic utilities$xLaw and legislation$zNew York (State)
650 0 $aPublic utilities$xLaw and legislation$zUnited States.
650 0 $aRailroads$xLaw and legislation$zNew York (State)
650 0 $aSchool integration$zUnited States.
650 0 $aSegregation in education$zUnited States.
650 0 $aSocial security$xLaw and legislation$zUnited States.
650 0 $aSteel industry and trade$xLaw and legislation$zUnited States.
650 0 $aSurplus military property$zUnited States.
650 0 $aTaxation, State$zUnited States.
650 0 $aTextile industry$xLaw and legislation$zNew York (State)
650 0 $aTreason$zUnited States.
650 0 $aTyphoid fever$zNew York (State)
650 0 $aWealth$zUnited States.
650 0 $aWorld War, 1939-1945$xEconomic aspects$zUnited States.
650 0 $aWorld War, 1939-1945$zSecret service.
650 0 $aWorld War, 1939-1945$zUnited States.
656 7 $aCabinet officers.$2itoamc
656 7 $aJurists.$2itoamc
656 7 $aLawyers.$2itoamc
656 7 $aPublic officials.$2itoamc
852 $aLibrary of Congress$bManuscript Division$eWashington, D.C. 20540 USA$ndcu$uhttp://hdl.loc.gov/loc.mss/mss.home
856 4 $3Finding aid$uhttp://hdl.loc.gov/loc.mss/eadmss.ms003002