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Thurgood Marshall, American lawyer and jurist, 32nd United States Solicitor General (born 1908)

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Thurgood Marshall

US Supreme Court justice from 1967 to 1991

Thoroughgood "Thurgood" Marshall was an American civil rights lawyer and jurist who served as an associate justice of the Supreme Court of the United States from 1967 until 1991. He was the Supreme Court's first African-American justice. Before his judicial service, he was an…
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Solicitor General of the United States

Position in the United States Department of Justice

The solicitor general of the United States, is the fourth-highest-ranking official within the United States Department of Justice (DOJ), and represents the federal government in cases before the Supreme Court of the United States. The solicitor general is appointed by the…
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