Henry Billings Brown

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Associate Justice of the Supreme Court of the United States person

Henry Billings Brown was an Associate Justice of the U.S. Supreme Court best known for authoring the decision that upheld racial segregation under the “separate but equal” doctrine.

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Predicate	Object
instanceOf	Associate Justice of the Supreme Court of the United States ⓘ person ⓘ
almaMater	Harvard Law School ⓘ Yale University ⓘ
appointedBy	Benjamin Harrison ⓘ Rutherford B. Hayes ⓘ
barAdmission	Michigan ⓘ
birthDate	1836-03-02 ⓘ
birthPlace	Lee, Massachusetts ⓘ surface form: South Lee, Massachusetts, United States
burialPlace	Elmwood Cemetery, Detroit, Michigan, United States ⓘ
countryOfCitizenship	United States of America ⓘ
deathDate	1913-09-04 ⓘ
deathPlace	Bronson, Michigan, United States ⓘ
education	Harvard Law School ⓘ Yale College NERFINISHED ⓘ Yale Law School ⓘ Yale University ⓘ
endTime	as Associate Justice of the Supreme Court of the United States: 1906-05-28 ⓘ as Judge of the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Michigan: 1890-12-29 ⓘ
era	Gilded Age ⓘ
familyName	Brown ⓘ
fieldOfWork	admiralty law ⓘ constitutional law ⓘ international law ⓘ
givenName	Henry ⓘ
ideology	judicial conservatism ⓘ
knownFor	authoring the Supreme Court opinion upholding racial segregation under the "separate but equal" doctrine ⓘ
language	English ⓘ
memberOf	Republican Party ⓘ surface form: Republican Party (United States)
middleName	Billings ⓘ
name	Henry Billings Brown self-link ⓘ
notableCase	Plessy v. Ferguson (1896) ⓘ surface form: Plessy v. Ferguson The Paquete Habana ⓘ
notableWork	majority opinion in Plessy v. Ferguson ⓘ
occupation	judge ⓘ lawyer ⓘ
positionHeld	Associate Justice of the Supreme Court of the United States ⓘ Judge of the United States District Court for the Eastern District of Michigan ⓘ
practicedLawIn	Detroit ⓘ surface form: Detroit, Michigan, United States
predecessor	John Wesley Longyear ⓘ Samuel Blatchford ⓘ
religion	Protestantism ⓘ
residence	Detroit ⓘ surface form: Detroit, Michigan, United States
spouse	Caroline Pitts ⓘ Mary Tyler ⓘ
startTime	as Associate Justice of the Supreme Court of the United States: 1891-01-05 ⓘ as Judge of the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Michigan: 1875-03-17 ⓘ
successor	Henry Howard Swan ⓘ William R. Day ⓘ surface form: William Rufus Day
workedAs	United States district judge for the Eastern District of Michigan ⓘ

Referenced by (3)

Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.

Lochner v. New York → joinedByInMajority → Henry Billings Brown ⓘ

Plessy v. Ferguson (1896) → majorityOpinionBy → Henry Billings Brown ⓘ

subject surface form: Plessy v. Ferguson

Henry Billings Brown → name → Henry Billings Brown self-link ⓘ