Serving in the Revolutionary WarĪ major influence on Marshall during his teen years was General George Washington, a friend of Marshall's father. He did, however, spend one year at Campbell Academy (founded by Reverend Archibald Campbell) in Westmoreland County, with future U.S.

Marshall and his father were descendants of colonist William Randolph, who had helped establish the Commonwealth of Virginia.Īs a child, Marshall was mainly home-schooled by his father. His father was a land surveyor for Lord Fairfax, and made a tidy income his cousin was Humphrey Marshall, who would later become a U.S. He was the first of 15 children born to Thomas Marshall and Mary Randolph Keith. Marshall was born on September 24, 1755, in rural Fauquier County, near Germantown on the Virginia frontier.

Supreme Court, serving until his death, on July 6, 1835, in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. In 1801, he became chief justice of the U.S. From 1782 to 1795, he held various political offices, including the position of secretary of state in 1800. The National Archives Museum’s “Featured Document” exhibit is made possible in part by the National Archives Foundation through the generous support of Ford Motor Company Fund.In 1780, John Marshall started his own law practice, defending clients against pre-war British creditors. The documents was on display from June 8 – July 26, 2017. Bakke (1978) in which the Court upheld the constitutionality of considering race in college admissions decisions. Johnson’s Jnomination of civil rights lawyer Thurgood Marshall to be the first African American justice to serve on the Supreme Court of the United States, the National Archives in Washington, DC will display a facsimile of the nomination and Justice Marshall’s opinion in the landmark affirmative action case Regents of the University of California v. In commemoration of the 50th anniversary of President Lyndon B. He retired from the Supreme Court in 1991 after 24 years on the bench and died on January 24, 1993. Solicitor General by President Johnson in 1965.Īs an associate justice on the highest court in America, Marshall continued his lifelong fight against discrimination to protect the constitutional rights of the most vulnerable Americans. Marshall had also been appointed to the Second Circuit of the U.S. Board of Education of Topeka (1954), which ruled school segregation unconstitutional. Marshall had already made his mark in American law, having won 29 of the 32 cases he argued before the Supreme Court, most notably the landmark case Brown v.

Johnson nominated distinguished civil rights lawyer Thurgood Marshall to be the first African American justice to serve on the Supreme Court of the United States. Justice Thurgood Marshall: First African American Supreme Court Justice

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