Abe Fortas, American lawyer and jurist (died 1982)

Abe Fortas

US Supreme Court justice from 1965 to 1969

Abraham Fortas was an American lawyer and jurist who served as an associate justice of the Supreme Court of the United States from 1965 to 1969. Born and raised in Memphis, Tennessee, Fortas graduated from Rhodes College and Yale Law School. He later became a law professor at…