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William Eldred Jackson was born in Jamestown, New York on July 19, 1919. He was the son of Robert Houghwout Jackson and Irene Gerhardt Jackson. At the time of his death on December 4, 1999, Mr. Jackson was a senior partner in the law firm of Milbank, Tweed, Hadley & McCloy in New York City.
Bill Jackson's life was a remarkable journey to "the action." In 1933, Bill moved from his family home in Jamestown to Washington, D.C. to attend St. Albans School as a boarding student. Bill's family followed him to Washington a year later when President Franklin Roosevelt appointed Bill's father to serve as general counsel for the Bureau of Internal Revenue, United States Department of Treasury. This position marked the start of Robert Jackson's remarkable and swift rise in public life, which in seven years included service as solicitor general and attorney general and appointment to the Supreme Court of the United States.
Bill Jackson attended Yale University, graduating in 1941. At Yale, Bill served as vice chairman of The Yale...