Harry Blackmun
Harry Blackmun
Harry Andrew Blackmunwas an Associate Justice of the Supreme Court of the United States from 1970 until 1994. Appointed by Republican President Richard Nixon, Blackmun ultimately became one of the most liberal justices on the Court. He is best known as the author of the Court's opinion in Roe v. Wade...
ProfessionSupreme Court Justice
Date of Birth12 November 1908
CityNashville, IL
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Dear Chief: I had a feeling that at the very close of today's Conference we may have fitted Matthew Arnold's closing lines in 'Dover Beach' wherein he refers to those 'Swept with confused alarms of struggle and flight / Where ignorant armies clash by night.'
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as a person of judicial integrity who wrote acceptably well and contributed in more than one field. I'd like to be known just as a good worker in the vineyard who held his own and contributed generally to the advancement of the law.
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Controversy over the meaning of our nation's most majestic guarantees frequently has been turbulent,