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- NAME: John Marshall Harlan
- OCCUPATION: Civil Rights Activist, Supreme Court Justice
- BIRTH DATE: June 01, 1833
- DEATH DATE: October 14, 1911
- PLACE OF BIRTH: Boyle Country, Kentucky
- PLACE OF DEATH: Washington, D.C.
- Full Name: James Marshall Harlan
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John Harlan was associate justice of the U.S. Supreme Court from 1877 until his death and one of the most forceful dissenters in the history of that tribunal.
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John Harlan was born June 1, 1833 in Boyle County, Kentucky. In 1877, he was appointed to the Supreme Court. He issued a dissent in Pollock v. Farmers' Loan and Trust Co. (1895), and dissented from the Supreme Court's ruling in the Civil Rights cases (1883) that Congress could not punish discrimination against blacks by private persons. Among his dissents was that in Plessy v. Ferguson (1896).© 2013 A+E Networks. All rights reserved.
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