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January 26, 1832
George Shiras Jr., American lawyer and Supreme Court justice (died 1924)
George Shiras Jr.
George Shiras Jr. was an American lawyer who served as an associate justice of the Supreme Court of the United States from 1892 to 1903. At that time of his appointment, he had 37 years of private legal practice but had never judged a case. He is noted for his conservative voting with the majority in Pollock v. Farmers' Loan & Trust Co. and in Plessy v. Ferguson.
January 26
January 26 is the 26th day of the year in the Gregorian calendar; 339 days remain until the end of the year.