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Up for sale "Supreme
Court Justice" William O Douglas Signed Book Photo. This item is certified authentic by Todd Mueller
Autographs and comes with their Certificate of Authenticity.
ES-2287
William Orville Douglas (October 16,
1898 – January 19, 1980) was an American jurist and politician who served
as an Associate Justice of the Supreme Court of the
United States. Nominated by President Franklin D. Roosevelt,
Douglas was confirmed at the age of 40, one of the youngest justices appointed
to the court. His term, lasting 36 years and 211 days (1939–75), is the longest in the history of the Supreme Court. Douglas "the most doctrinaire and committed civil libertarian ever to sit on the court". After
an itinerant childhood, Douglas attended Whitman College on a scholarship. He graduated from Columbia Law School in
1925 and joined the Yale Law School faculty.
After serving as the third chairman of the U.S.
Securities and Exchange Commission, Douglas was successfully
nominated to the Supreme Court, succeeding Justice Louis Brandeis. He was among those seriously considered for
the 1944 Democratic vice presidential nomination and was
subject to an unsuccessful draft movement prior to the 1948
presidential election. Douglas served on the Court until his
retirement in 1975, and was succeeded by John Paul Stevens. Douglas holds a number of records as a
Supreme Court Justice, including the most opinions. Douglas wrote the Court's majority opinion in major
cases such as United
States v. Paramount Pictures, Inc. (1948), Terminiello v. City of
Chicago (1949), Brady v. Maryland (1963), and Griswold v. Connecticut (1965). He
wrote notable concurring or dissenting opinions in cases such as Dennis v. United States (1951), Terry v. Ohio (1968), and Brandenburg v. Ohio (1969).
He was also known as a strong opponent of the Vietnam War and an ardent advocate of environmentalism.
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