biography
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| (1948– )
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| biography:
| Judge, born in Pin Point, near Savannah, Georgia, USA. Shaped by his poor-but-proud family and his Catholic schooling, he went on to graduate from Holy Cross College and Yale Law School and to espouse conservative views on the situation of his fellow African-Americans. He worked as assistant secretary of education (1981) and then headed the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (1981–9). President Bush appointed him to the federal court of appeals (1990–1) and to the US Supreme Court, where, only after a highly controversial Senate hearing and vote, did he become the second African-American to take a seat (1991). |
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