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About John Marshall Harlan
John Marshall Harlan was an American lawyer and politician who served as an associate justice of the Supreme Court of the United States from 1877 until his death in 1911. He is often called "The Great Dissenter" due to his many dissents in cases that restricted civil liberties, including the Civil Rights Cases, Plessy v. Ferguson, and Giles v. Harris. Many of Harlan's views expressed in his notable dissents would become the official view of the Supreme Court starting from the 1950s Warren Court and onward.
Everything about John Marshall Harlan →- Occupation
- lawyer, judge, politician, jurist
- Position held
- Associate Justice of the Supreme Court of the United States, Attorney General of Kentucky
- Citizenship
- United States
- Born
- June 1, 1833
- Died
- October 14, 1911