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Justice Clarence Thomas is only the second of two African-American justices to sit on the US Supreme Court. President Johnson appointed Justice Thurgood Marshall as the first African-American on the Court in 1967. President George H W Bush appointed Clarence Thomas as Thurgood Marshall's successor when Marshall retired in 1991.

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