John Marshall Harlan II
John Marshall Harlan II (born May 20, 1899 in Chicago , Illinois , † December 29, 1971 in Washington, DC ) was an American lawyer and from 1955 to 1971 a judge at the Supreme Court of the United States .
Life
The son of a Chicago lawyer and grandson of John Marshall Harlan , Supreme Court Justice from 1877 to 1911, studied at Princeton University until 1920 after attending Upper Canada College and Appleby College in Toronto . He then studied with a Rhodes Scholar at Balliol College of Oxford University and received his in 1923 a Bachelor of Arts (AB). He then completed postgraduate studies in law at the New York Law School, which he completed in 1924 with a Bachelor of Laws (LL.B.). He then served as an attorney, but also served as an assistant district attorney and special attorney with the New York Attorney General .
During the Second World War he did his military service from 1943 to 1945 in the United States Army Air Forces , where he was employed as a colonel with the VIIIth Bomber Command . For his services he was awarded the Legion of Merit and the Croix de guerre .
After the end of the war he was initially again a lawyer and then from 1951 to 1954 chief legal counsel of the New York Crime Commission. From 1954 he served as a judge on the second United States Court of Appeals , which is responsible for appeals in the states of Connecticut , New York and Vermont .
On March 28, 1955, he was nominated by US President Dwight D. Eisenhower as a judge at the United States Supreme Court . He held this office as the successor to Robert H. Jackson until his resignation on September 23, 1971. In 1960 Harlan was elected to the American Academy of Arts and Sciences .
During his tenure as judge he acted as a representative in the following important decisions:
- Gideon v. Wainwright (1963)
- Miranda v. Arizona (1966)
- Loving v. Virginia (1967)
- Clay v. United States (1971)
Harlan passed away just three months after he left the Supreme Court.
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- Biography (English)
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Harlan, John Marshall II |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | American lawyer, United States Supreme Court Justice |
| DATE OF BIRTH | May 20, 1899 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Chicago , Illinois |
| DATE OF DEATH | December 29, 1971 |
| Place of death | Washington, DC |