John Marshall Harlan

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John Marshall Harlan was a U.S. Supreme Court justice best known for his powerful lone dissents in civil rights cases, particularly his opposition to racial segregation in Plessy v. Ferguson.

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instanceOf Associate Justice of the Supreme Court of the United States
person
appointedBy Rutherford B. Hayes
barAdmission Kentucky bar
birthDate 1833-06-01
birthPlace Boyle County, Kentucky
near Danville, Kentucky
child James S. Harlan
John Maynard Harlan
conflict American Civil War
countryOfCitizenship United States of America
deathDate 1911-10-14
deathPlace Washington, D.C.
education Centre College
Transylvania University
read law for bar admission
endTime as U.S. Supreme Court justice 1911
familyName Harlan
givenName John
ideology judicial nationalism
support for incorporation of the Bill of Rights
knownFor defense of broad federal power to protect civil rights
opposition to racial segregation
powerful lone dissents on civil rights
memberOfPoliticalParty Know-Nothing movement
surface form: Know Nothing movement

Republican Party
surface form: Republican Party (United States)

Whig Party
militaryBranch Union Army
militaryRank colonel
namedAfter John Marshall
notableWork dissenting opinion in Berea College v. Kentucky
dissenting opinion in Lochner v. New York
dissenting opinion in Plessy v. Ferguson
dissenting opinion in the Civil Rights Cases (1883)
occupation judge
lawyer
politician
officeContested Governor of Kentucky
placeOfBurial Rock Creek Cemetery
positionHeld Associate Justices of the Supreme Court
surface form: Associate Justice of the Supreme Court of the United States
relative John M. Harlan II
surface form: John Marshall Harlan II
religion Presbyterianism
residence Frankfort, Kentucky
Louisville, Kentucky
Washington, D.C.
spouse Malvina Shanklin Harlan
startTime as U.S. Supreme Court justice 1877
viewOnRace advocated a color-blind Constitution in Plessy v. Ferguson dissent

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Lochner v. New York dissentBy John Marshall Harlan
Plessy v. Ferguson (1896) dissentingOpinionBy John Marshall Harlan
subject surface form: Plessy v. Ferguson
subject surface form: The Civil Rights Cases
Lochner v. New York joinedByInMajority John Marshall Harlan
this entity surface form: John Marshall Harlan (not in majority; remove)
John M. Harlan II relative John Marshall Harlan