Thurgood Marshall
Judge
1908 – 1993
Who was Thurgood Marshall?
Thurgood Marshall was an Associate Justice of the United States Supreme Court, serving from October 1967 until October 1991. Marshall was the Court's 96th justice and its first African-American justice.
Before becoming a judge, Marshall was a lawyer who was best known for his high success rate in arguing before the Supreme Court and for the victory in Brown v. Board of Education. He served on the United States Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit after being appointed by President John F. Kennedy and then served as the Solicitor General after being appointed by President Lyndon Johnson in 1965. President Johnson nominated him to the United States Supreme Court in 1967.
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- Born
- Jul 2, 1908
Baltimore - Parents
- Spouses
- Cecilia Suyat
(1955/12 - 1993/01/24) - Vivian Burey
(1929 - 1955/02)
- Cecilia Suyat
- Children
- Religion
- Anglicanism
- Episcopal Church
- Ethnicity
- African American
- Nationality
- United States of America
- Profession
- Education
- Howard University
- Lincoln University
- Howard University School of Law
- Frederick Douglass Senior High School
- Lived in
- Baltimore
- Died
- Jan 24, 1993
Bethesda - Resting place
- Arlington National Cemetery
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on July 23, 2013
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