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  2. Thurgood Marshall - Wikipedia

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    Thoroughgood "Thurgood" Marshall (July 2, 1908 – January 24, 1993) was an American civil rights lawyer and jurist who served as an associate justice of the Supreme Court of the United States from 1967 until 1991. He was the Supreme Court's first African-American justice.

  3. Thurgood Marshall Supreme Court nomination - Wikipedia

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    On October 1, 1967, at the start of the Court's new term, Marshall was given the judicial oath and formally joined the Court's bench. [3] The previous three times that a Democratic Party president had nominated a justice to the Supreme Court, Democratic–controlled Senates had confirmed the nominations within one month by voice vote.

  4. List of United States Supreme Court justices by time in office

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    The longest serving chief justice was John Marshall, with a tenure of 12,570 days (34 years, 152 days). John Rutledge , who served on the court twice, was both the shortest serving associate justice , with a tenure of 383 days ( 1 year, 18 days), and the shortest serving chief justice, with a tenure of 138 days ( 4 months 16 days).

  5. Surprising Personal Facts About Supreme Court Justices - AOL

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    Current Justice Elena Kagan — at 5-foot-3, she was called "shorty" by the 6-foot-2 Thurgood Marshall, who retired from the court in the early '90s — seemed to set her sights on the bench from ...

  6. List of nominations to the Supreme Court of the United States

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    The Supreme Court of the United States is the highest ranking judicial body in the United States.Established by Article III of the Constitution, the Court was organized by the 1st United States Congress through the Judiciary Act of 1789, which specified its original and appellate jurisdiction, created 13 judicial districts, and fixed the size of the Supreme Court at six, with one chief justice ...

  7. Lyndon B. Johnson judicial appointment controversies

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    In 1965, Johnson nominated his friend, high-profile Washington, D.C. lawyer Abe Fortas, to the Supreme Court, and he was confirmed by the United States Senate. In 1967, Johnson nominated United States Solicitor General Thurgood Marshall to the Supreme Court, and he also was confirmed by the Senate. In 1968, however, Johnson made two failed ...

  8. Civil rights experts say replacing Roger Taney statue with ...

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    The bill directs the Joint Committee of Congress on the Library to replace Taney’s bust with that of Thurgood Marshall, who served as the Supreme Court’s first African American justice from ...

  9. List of justices of the Supreme Court of the United States

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    Since the Supreme Court was established in 1789, 116 people have served on the Court. The length of service on the Court for the 107 non-incumbent justices ranges from William O. Douglas's 36 years, 209 days to John Rutledge's 1 year, 18 days as associate justice and, separated by a period of years off the Court, his 138 days as chief justice.