biography
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Harlan, John (Marshall)
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| lived:
| (1833–1911)
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| biography:
| Jurist, born in Boyle Co, Kentucky, USA. He studied at Transylvania University and was admitted to the bar in 1853. An unsuccessful candidate for the US House of Representatives in 1858, he was a presidential elector on the Bell–Everett (Constitutional Union) ticket in 1860. Appointed to the Supreme Court where he became the outstanding liberal justice, he served 34 years (1877–1911), and is best remembered for defending the Thirteenth, Fourteenth, and Fifteenth Amendments as upholders of African-American civil rights. |
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