Robert G. Storey
Robert Gerard Storey (* 1893 in Greenville , Texas ; † 1981 ) was an American lawyer .
The son of a doctor wanted to study medicine at the University of Texas, but soon switched to law. In 1914 he began practicing in Troup , east Texas. In 1917, when he was appointed Assistant County Attorney , he married. During World War I he served as a lieutenant in the Coast Artillery . After the war, he practiced law in Tyler for three years, then was appointed Assistant Attorney General of Texas. Two years later he moved to Dallas . In 1928 he became a member of the University of Texas board of directors. From 1938 to 1940 he was chairman of the Section of Legal Education .
In 1941 he had traveled to England on behalf of the American Bar Association when the United States entered World War II. Four months later he was a major in the Army Air Corps and later rose to be a colonel. Among other things, he served in the Balkans, which were then occupied by the Soviet Union . He was awarded a Bronze Star for his material collection on the air force and war crimes in the Balkans . When he returned to Florida after the war , he was asked by Chief Justice Robert H. Jackson to gather evidence against the top Nazis. As a civilian, he returned to Europe, where he became Jackson's advisor at the Nuremberg Trials . He has received numerous awards for his work. He declined an appeal to the Japanese war crimes trials and returned to Dallas in 1947, where he was Dean of the School of Law at Southern Methodist University .
Web links
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Individual evidence
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Storey, Robert G. |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Storey, Robert Gerard |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | American lawyer |
| DATE OF BIRTH | 1893 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Greenville , Texas |
| DATE OF DEATH | 1981 |