Harry A. Blackmun
Harry Andrew Blackmun (born November 12, 1908 in Nashville , Illinois , † March 4, 1999 in Arlington , Virginia ) was an American lawyer and judge at the Supreme Court of the United States .
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Harry Blackmun attended Harvard University and received his in 1929 the Bachelor of Arts , the 1932 at the Harvard Law School of Bachelor of Laws followed. From 1934 to 1950 he worked as a lawyer in Minneapolis ; then he served as a corporate attorney for the Mayo Clinic in Rochester until 1959 .
Blackmun was after the nomination by US President Dwight D. Eisenhower from 1959 to 1970 on the Federal Court of Appeals for the eighth district. There he followed John B. Sanborn , for whom he had worked as a legal assistant ( Law Clerk ) in the 1930s . On April 4, 1970, he was nominated by President Richard Nixon to replace the resigned Abe Fortas for the Supreme Court . Nixon's previous candidates, Clement Haynsworth and G. Harrold Carswell , two Conservative federal judges from the southern states , had failed the Senate vote . Blackmun, on the other hand, was confirmed with 94: 0 votes and during his tenure from June 9, 1970 to August 3, 1994 initially proved to be a conservative judge, later a more liberal judge.
His historic merit is seen in being the author of the majority opinion in the landmark decision in the Roe v. Wade repealed abortion restriction laws in the United States and made abortion a constitutional right. The United States Supreme Court found by seven votes to two that all other state regulations prohibiting abortion in the first trimester of pregnancy were also incompatible with the American Constitution.
Blackmun announced his resignation from the Supreme Court in April 1994. Stephen Breyer was nominated as his successor . Blackmun suffered a hip fracture in a fall on February 22, 1999 and died ten days later from complications from the subsequent operation. His final resting place is Arlington National Cemetery .
As the only judge on the Supreme Court so far, Harry Blackmun acted as an actor in a movie. In Amistad , a 1997 historical drama about the Amistad trials , he played Joseph Story , one of his supreme court predecessors .
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- Bill Clinton : My Life . Vintage, 2005. ISBN 1-4000-3003-X
- Linda Greenhouse: Becoming Justice Blackmun: Harry Blackmun's Supreme Court Journey . Henry Holt, 2005. ISBN 0-8050-8057-0
Web links
- Harry A. Blackmun in the Biographical Directory of Federal Judges
- Harry Blackmun in the nndb (English)
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Blackmun, Harry A. |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Blackmun, Harry Andrew (full name) |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | American judge |
| DATE OF BIRTH | November 12, 1908 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Nashville , Illinois |
| DATE OF DEATH | March 4, 1999 |
| Place of death | Arlington , Virginia |