Sunday marks Robert H. Jackson’s 130th birthday.

Born on Feb. 13, 1892, at a family homestead in Spring Creek, Jackson rose from humble beginnings to serve in President Franklin Roosevelt’s administration and then as an Associate Justice on the U.S. Supreme Court.

He was also tasked by President Harry Truman to be chief prosecutor for the United States at Nuremberg, the tribunal established to prosecute Nazi war criminals after the Second World War.

In commemoration of Jackson’s birthday, the Robert H. Jackson Center is planning Jackson Day in Warren on Feb. 16.

The subject of the 7 p.m. talk at the Warren County Courthouse will be an instance where Truman and Jackson did not see eye to eye — the Supreme Court decision that invalidated Truman’s 1952 seizure of the nation’s steel mills in the midst of an employee strike.

“The Limits of Executive Power are as relevant today, possibly even more so, as they were 70 years ago,” the Center said in a Facebook post promoting the event, noting that the subject case — Youngstown Sheet and Tube Co. v. Sawyer “set the standard for the scope of a president’s authority.”

The keynote speaker will be Matthew Steilen, a constitutional law and legal history professor at the University of Buffalo.

His presentation is entitled “70 Years After Steel Seizure: The Limits of Executive Power.”

Next Wednesday’s event is free but the Jackson Center asks those attending to consider a charitable donation to the center to support free access to all Jackson Center programs.