'''Robert Houghwout Jackson''' was an Associate Justice of the [[United States Supreme Court]] from 1941–1954, appointed by President [[Franklin D. Roosevelt]]. Jackson previously served as General Counsel for the [[U.S. Treasury Department]], U.S. Solicitor General, and Attorney General. Jackson was born in Spring Creek Township, Warren County, Pennsylvania, February 13, 1892, and raised in Frewsburg, New York.
Justice Robert Jackson was perhaps the finest Supreme Court jurist of the 20th century, despite having never attended college or having a law degree. He was widely known to be a brilliant, [[conservative]] judge. In all of the big cases of his era -- ''Korematsu'', ''Youngstown Steel'', and ''Barnette'' -- Jackson's position was subsequently proven to be the best one. In ''Skinner v. Oklahoma'', 316 U.S. 535, 546 (1942), Justice Jackson stated in concurrence (in a much-needed rejection of the pro-eugenics decision of ''[[Buck v. Bell]]''): “There are limits to the extent to which a legislatively represented majority may conduct biological experiments at the expense of the dignity and personality and natural powers of a minority ....”
Many of the most-quoted statements in the history of the Supreme Court were made by Justice Jackson, such as: