Editing Robert H. Jackson (section)

==Federal appointments, 1934–1938==
[[1932 United States presidential election|In 1932]], Jackson was active in Franklin Roosevelt's presidential campaign as chairman of an organization called Democratic Lawyers for Roosevelt.<ref>{{cite news |date=October 25, 1932 |title=Democratic Lawyers Organization Formed |url=https://www.newspapers.com/image/114103876/ |work=Poughkeepsie Eagle-News |location=Poughkeepsie, NY |page=2 |url-access=subscription |access-date=March 10, 2017 |archive-date=March 12, 2017 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170312062409/https://www.newspapers.com/image/114103876/ |url-status=live }}</ref> (Another Robert H. Jackson was also active in the Roosevelt campaign.<ref>{{cite book |last=Jackson |first=Robert H. |date=2003 |title=That Man: An Insider's Portrait of Franklin D. Roosevelt |url=https://archive.org/details/thatmaninsidersp00jack |url-access=registration |location=New York, NY |publisher=Oxford University Press |page=[https://archive.org/details/thatmaninsidersp00jack/page/8 8] |isbn=978-0-19-516826-6 |ref={{sfnRef|''That Man: An Insider's Portrait of Franklin D. Roosevelt''}}}}</ref> That Jackson (1880–1973) was Secretary of the [[Democratic National Committee]], and was a resident of [[New Hampshire]].){{sfn|''That Man: An Insider's Portrait of Franklin D. Roosevelt''}}

In 1934, Jackson agreed to join the Roosevelt administration; he served initially as Assistant General Counsel of the U.S. Treasury Department's Bureau of Internal Revenue (today's [[U.S. Internal Revenue Service|Internal Revenue Service]]), where he was in charge of 300 lawyers who tried cases before the Board of Tax Appeals.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://supremecourthistory.org/timeline_robertjackson1941-1945.html |title=Biography, Robert H. Jackson, 1941-1954 |work=Timeline of the Justices |publisher=Supreme Court Historical Society |location=Washington, DC |access-date=March 10, 2017 |archive-date=March 12, 2017 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170312061856/http://supremecourthistory.org/timeline_robertjackson1941-1945.html |url-status=live }}</ref> In 1936, Jackson became [[United States Assistant Attorney General|Assistant Attorney General]], heading the [[United States Department of Justice Tax Division|Tax Division of the Department of Justice]], and in 1937, he became Assistant Attorney General, heading the [[United States Department of Justice Antitrust Division|Antitrust Division]].<ref>{{cite book |last=Shultz |first=David |date=2005 |title=The Encyclopedia of the Supreme Court |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=I_f6Oo9H3YsC&pg=PA232 |location=New York, NY |publisher=Facts on File, Inc. |page=232 |isbn=978-0-8160-5086-4 |access-date=March 10, 2017 |archive-date=March 12, 2017 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170312132438/https://books.google.com/books?id=I_f6Oo9H3YsC&pg=PA232 |url-status=live }}</ref>

Jackson was a supporter of the [[New Deal]], litigating against corporations and utilities holding companies.<ref name=Forgotten344-349>{{cite book|last=Shlaes|first=Amity|author-link=Amity Shlaes|title=The Forgotten Man: A New History of the Great Depression|url=https://archive.org/details/forgottenmannewh00shla_259|url-access=limited|edition=1st |year= 2007|publisher=[[HarperCollins]]|location=New York|isbn=978-0-06-621170-1|pages=[https://archive.org/details/forgottenmannewh00shla_259/page/n367 344]–349}}</ref> He participated in the 1934 prosecution of [[Samuel Insull]],<ref>{{cite book|last=Shlaes|first=Amity |author-link=Amity Shlaes|title=The Forgotten Man: A New History of the Great Depression|url=https://archive.org/details/forgottenmannewh00shla_259|url-access=limited|edition=1st |year=2007|publisher=[[HarperCollins]] |location=New York|isbn=978-0-06-621170-1|pages=[https://archive.org/details/forgottenmannewh00shla_259/page/n196 189]–191}}
</ref> the 1935 income tax case against [[Andrew Mellon]],<ref>{{cite book|last=Schlesinger|first=Arthur Meier|author-link=Arthur M. Schlesinger, Jr.|title=The Coming of the New Deal, 1933–1935|orig-year=1959|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=mj3VmJ38tHIC&q=mellon+jackson+%22income+tax%22&pg=PA569|access-date=January 20, 2008|edition=1st Mariner Books|series=Age of Roosevelt|year=2003|publisher=[[Houghton Mifflin]]|location=Boston|isbn=0-618-34086-6|oclc=51978038|pages=569|archive-date=November 8, 2021|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20211108180827/https://books.google.com/books?id=mj3VmJ38tHIC&q=mellon+jackson+%22income+tax%22&pg=PA569|url-status=live}}</ref><ref>{{cite news|first=Amity|last=Shlaes|author-link=Amity Shlaes|title=The Greenspan Of His Day, a book review of Mellon: An American Life (by David Cannadine)|url=http://www.nysun.com/article/40682|work=[[New York Sun]]|location=New York City|date=October 2, 2006|access-date=January 20, 2008|quote=Mellon's opponents never did win convictions.|archive-date=May 6, 2008|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20080506085125/http://www2.nysun.com/article/40682|url-status=live}}</ref><ref>{{cite magazine|title=Self-Defense|url=http://www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,771717-2,00.html|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20080506085937/http://www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,771717-2,00.html|url-status=dead|archive-date=May 6, 2008|magazine=TIME |date=April 15, 1935|access-date=January 20, 2008}}</ref> and the 1937 anti-trust case against [[Alcoa]], in which the Mellon family held an important interest.<ref>{{cite magazine|title=Round for Mellon|url=http://www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,848675,00.html|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20080506090854/http://www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,848675,00.html|url-status=dead|archive-date=May 6, 2008|magazine=TIME|date=May 24, 1937|access-date=January 20, 2008}}</ref>