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City of Chicago (1949), Brady v. Maryland (1963), and Harper v. Virginia State Board of Elections (1966). Douglas also served as an associate justice in the landmark civil rights case Brown v. Board of Education (1954), a Supreme Court case that outlawed segregation in American public schools.
Born in Minnesota and raised in California and Washington, he graduated from the ‘Yakima High School’ in Washington. He hailed from a lower-middle-class family and thus did odd jobs to make ends meet while also pursuing his education at the same time.
William O. Douglas, 1939-1975. WILLIAM O. DOUGLAS was born in Maine, Minnesota, on October 16, 1898, and raised in Yakima, Washington. He entered Whitman College in 1916, but his studies were interrupted by military service in World War I. Douglas was graduated from Whitman in 1920 and taught school for two years before attending law school at ...
Posted 11/15/2004. HistoryLink.org Essay 7119. Share. William O. Douglas, who grew up in Yakima, was appointed to the United States Supreme Court at the age of 40 and served for more than 36 years, longer than any other justice in the Court's history.
Justice William O. Douglas joined the U.S. Supreme Court on April 17, 1939, replacing Justice Louis Brandeis. Douglas was born on October 16, 1898 in western Minnesota, but his family soon moved to the West Coast. He graduated with honors from Whitman College in Washington in 1920.
Determined and competitive in nature, William O. Douglas set the record for longest continuous service on the Supreme Court. Douglas was born on October 16, 1898, in Maine, Minnesota, to Julia Fisk and Reverend William Douglas. The second of three children, he became his mother’s favorite, earning the nickname “Treasure.”
The William O. Douglas Film Project is valuable as a vehicle to help secure Justice Douglas’ place in history. The end result of this project is to create an educational asset for use in institutions, libraries, and media centers for environmental and legal studies. Sales can be structured to allow the institutions public performance rights ...
