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Who did President Lyndon Johnson appoint to the US Supreme Court?
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President Johnson nominated Thurgood Marshall, former NAACP Legal Defense Fund Lead Counsel and the man who successfully argued for desegregation in Brown v. Board of Education, as the first African-American Supreme Court justice in 1967. Marshall retired in 1991 and was succeeded by Clarence Thomas, the second African-American to serve on the Court.
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∙ 14y ago
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∙ 13y agoPresident Johnson nominated two Associate Justices to the US Supreme Court:
Abe Fortas..................(1965 - 1969).....resignation
Thurgood Marshall.......(1967 - 1991).....retirement
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