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- Educated at McGuire’s University School, a private academy that prepared students for admission to the University of Virginia, Powell instead attended Washington and Lee University in Lexington, Va., where he was elected student body president and received bachelor’s (1929) and law (1931) degrees.
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An Education Program FOR America (May 28, 1970). This Speech is brought to you for free and open access by the Lewis F. Powell Jr. Papers at Washington and Lee University School of Law Scholarly Commons.
- "An Education Program FOR America" by Lewis F. Powell Jr.
Lewis F. Powell, Jr., An Education Program FOR America (May...
- Powell Memorandum: Attack On American Free Enterprise System
On August 23, 1971, less than two months before he was...
- "An Education Program FOR America" by Lewis F. Powell Jr.
Lewis Franklin Powell Jr. (September 19, 1907 – August 25, 1998) was an American lawyer and jurist who served as an associate justice of the Supreme Court of the United States from 1972 to 1987. Born in Suffolk, Virginia , he graduated from both the Washington and Lee University School of Law and Harvard Law School and served in the United ...
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On August 23, 1971, less than two months before he was nominated to serve as an Associate Justice of the Supreme Court of the United States, Lewis F. Powell, Jr. mailed a confidential memorandum to his friend Eugene B. Sydnor, Jr., Chair of the Education Committee of the U.S. Chamber of Commerce.
Powell began his education with an elderly lady who taught children in her home. After three years of education, he was able to attend fourth grade when the trolley lines opened to allow river passage. Though Powell was his mother’s favorite child, he fought hard to earn his father’s favor.
Lewis F. Powell, Jr., 1972-1987. LEWIS F. POWELL, JR., was born in Suffolk, Virginia, on September 19, 1907, and lived most of his life in Richmond, Virginia. He was graduated from Washington and Lee University in 1929 and from Washington and Lee University Law School in 1931.
The Honorable Lewis Franklin Powell, Jr. is "the education Jus-tice" of the United States. During his tenure on the U.S. Supreme Court, from 1971 to 1987, Justice Powell authored at least twenty major opinions in education law, in addition to numerous signifi-cant concurrences and dissents.
