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• Baldwin, Henry    b. January 14, 1780  d. April 21, 1844
  United States Supreme Court Associate Justice, US Congressman. Elected to represent Pennsylvania’s 14th District in the United States House of Representatives, serving from 1817 until his resignation in 1822. Nominated to the Supreme Court by President Andrew Jackson to fill the vacancy caused by the death of Bushrod Washington and confirmed by Congress in 1830, he served as an Associate Justice until his death in 1844. In 1837 he published the influential work “A General View of the Origin and...[Read More] (Bio by: Russ Dodge)
  Greendale Cemetery, Meadville, Crawford County, Pennsylvania, USA
  Plot: Section 5, Lot 146
   
• Barbour, Philip Pendleton    b. May 25, 1783  d. February 25, 1841
  United States Supreme Court Associate Justice.
  Congressional Cemetery, Washington, District of Columbia, District Of Columbia, USA
  Plot: Range 57, Site 144
   
• Black, Hugo Lafayette    b. February 27, 1886  d. September 25, 1971
  United States Supreme Court Associate Justice, US Senator. The son of a former Confederate soldier, he was a native of Harlan, Alabama. He attended the University of Alabama, and received his law degree in 1906. He set up his practice in Birmingham but discontinued it when he was selected as a police court judge in 1910. He served as a county prosecutor until he joined the United States Army after the country entered World War I. He became a member of the 81st Field Artillery which served its...[Read More] (Bio by: Ugaalltheway)
  Arlington National Cemetery, Arlington, Arlington County, Virginia, USA
  Plot: Section 30 Lot 649-LH Grid W/X-38.5
   
• Blackmun, Harry A.    b. November 12, 1908  d. March 4, 1999
  United States Supreme Court Associate Justice. He was born in Nashville, Illinois, but his family moved to St. Paul, Minnesota, when he was still a young boy. He received his undergraduate degree in math from Harvard University in 1929, and earned his law degree also from Harvard in 1932. He then returned to Minnesota to practice law. In 1959, President Dwight Eisenhower appointed him to the United States Court of Appeals. In 1969, Justice Abe Fortas was forced to resign from the Supreme Court...[Read More] (Bio by: Ugaalltheway)
  Arlington National Cemetery, Arlington, Arlington County, Virginia, USA
  Plot: Section 5, Lot 40-4, Map Grid V/W 36
   
• Blair, John    b. October, 1731  d. August 31, 1800
  US Supreme Court Justice, Signer of US Constitution. He was a member of a prominent Virginia family who held several roles in their colony, including acting Royal Governor. After studying in England, he returned to Virginia where he practiced law and following in his family's footsteps, became involved in public service by serving in the House of Burgesses from 1766 to 1770 and becoming the clerk of the Royal Governor's Council from 1770 to 1775. He originally considered himself a moderate in...[Read More] (Bio by: Bigwoo)
  Bruton Parish Episcopal Church Cemetery, Williamsburg, Williamsburg City, Virginia, USA
   
• Blatchford, Samuel    b. March 9, 1820  d. July 7, 1893
  United States Supreme Court Justice. Born to a prominent lawyer and Ambassador to the Vatican, he graduated from Columbia College at the age of 17. In 1840 he served as private secretary to Governor William Henry Seward (future Secretary of State in the Abraham Lincoln and Andrew Johnson Presidential Administrations). While working for the governor he studied law and entered practice in his fathers law firm. In 1854 he moved to New York City and with his partners opened "Blatchford, Seward and...[Read More] (Bio by: Matthew Fatale)
  Green-Wood Cemetery, Brooklyn, Kings County, New York, USA
  Plot: Section 100, Lot 5643
   
• Bradley, Joseph P.    b. March 14, 1813  d. January 22, 1892
  United States Supreme Court Associate Justice.
  Mount Pleasant Cemetery, Newark, Essex County, New Jersey, USA
  Plot: Section N, Lot 77
   
• Brandeis, Louis Dembitz    b. November 13, 1856  d. October 5, 1941
  American legal scholar, attorney and jurist, best known for his tenure as an Associate Justice of the U.S. Supreme Court (1916–39). Brandeis was the first Jew ever to be appointed to the Supreme Court. He was an important American litigator, Justice, advocate of privacy, progressive causes, and developer of the Brandeis Brief. In addition, he helped lead the American Zionist movement. Louis Dembitz Brandeis, scion of a wealthy Jewish family, was born in Louisville, Kentucky on November 13...[Read More] (Bio by: Edward Parsons)
  University of Louisville, Louisville, Jefferson County, Kentucky, USA
   
• Brennan Jr., William Joseph    b. April 25, 1906  d. July 24, 1997
  United States Supreme Court Associate Justice. Born in Newark, New Jersey, he was the son of Irish immigrants. Graduating with honors from the Wharton School of Finance and Commerce at the University of Pennsylvania, and in 1931, he received his law degree from Harvard University where he was at the top of his class. He then returned to New Jersey to set up his practice, but due to the bombing of Pearl Harbor, he joined the United States Army in early 1942. He was a Major in the Ordnance...[Read More] (Bio by: Ugaalltheway)
  Arlington National Cemetery, Arlington, Arlington County, Virginia, USA
  Plot: Section 5, Lot 40 Grid W-36
   
• Brewer, David Josiah    b. June 20, 1837  d. March 28, 1910
  Associate Justice, US Supreme Court. He was the son of Josiah Brewer, a missionary, and Emilia Field Brewer, sister of Supreme Court Justice Stephen Field, with whom he eventually served. After their missionary work, the family settled in Wethersfield, Connecticut and Brewer attended Wesleyan University prior to transferring to Yale. After graduating with honors he studied law for a year with an uncle before enrolling in Albany Law School. He received his degree and was admitted to the New York...[Read More] (Bio by: Tom Todd)
  Mount Muncie Cemetery, Lansing, Leavenworth County, Kansas, USA
   
• Brown, Henry Billings    b. March 2, 1836  d. September 4, 1913
  United States Supreme Court Associate Justice.
  Elmwood Cemetery, Detroit, Wayne County, Michigan, USA
   
• Burger, Warren Earl    b. September 17, 1907  d. June 25, 1995
  American politician and jurist, best known for serving as the 15th Chief Justice of the United States (1969-1986). Burger was the longest-serving Chief Justice of the 20th Century. His court delivered ground-breaking decisions on abortion and school desegregation. Warren Earl Burger was born on September 17, 1907 in Saint Paul, Minnesota, one of seven children. His grandfather, Joseph Burger, who had emigrated from Switzerland and joined the Union Army when he was 14, was awarded the Medal of...[Read More] (Bio by: Edward Parsons)
  Cause of death: Congestive heart failure
  Arlington National Cemetery, Arlington, Arlington County, Virginia, USA
  Plot: Section 5, Lot 7015-2 Grid W-36
   
• Burton, Harold Hitz    b. June 22, 1888  d. October 28, 1964
  US Senator, United States Supreme Court Associate Justice.
  Highland Park Cemetery, Highland Hills, Cuyahoga County, Ohio, USA
  Plot: Lot 151, Grove 3C.
   
• Butler, Pierce    b. March 17, 1866  d. November 16, 1939
  United States Supreme Court Associate Justice.
  Calvary Cemetery, Saint Paul, Ramsey County, Minnesota, USA
  GPS coordinates: 44.9678116, -93.1849823 (hddd.dddd)
   
• Byrnes, James Francis    b. May 2, 1879  d. April 9, 1972
  US Congressman, Senator, Presidential Cabinet Secretary, US Supreme Court Associate Justice, South Carolina Governor. He was admitted to the bar in 1903, commenced law practice in Aiken, South Carolina, was elected as a Democrat to the Sixty-second Congress and to the six succeeding Congresses, serving 1911 to 1925. In 1930, he was elected as a Democrat to the US Senate and served until his resignation in 1941, having been appointed US Justice Supreme Court Associate, serving until 1942. In...[Read More] (Bio by: John "J-Cat" Griffith)
  Trinity Episcopal Cathedral Cemetery, Columbia, Richland County, South Carolina, USA
   
• Campbell, John Archibald    b. June 24, 1811  d. March 12, 1889
  United States Supreme Court Associate Justice. During the Civil War, he served as Assistant Secretary of War for Confederate States of America from October 1861 to April 1865.
  Green Mount Cemetery, Baltimore, Baltimore city, Maryland, USA
  Plot: Western Area, Lot 23
   
• Cardozo, Benjamin Nathan    b. May 24, 1870  d. July 9, 1938
  United States Supreme Court Associate Justice.
  Beth Olom Cemetery, Queens, Queens County, New York, USA
   
• Catron, John    b. January 7, 1786  d. May 30, 1865
  United States Supreme Court Associate Justice.
  Mount Olivet Cemetery, Nashville, Davidson County, Tennessee, USA
   
• Chase, Salmon    b. January 13, 1808  d. May 7, 1873
  US Senator, Ohio Governor, Presidential Cabinet Secretary. United States Chief Justice. Born in Cornish, New Hampshire, at the age of 9, his father died and he went to live with his uncle, Philander Chase, who was the Bishop of Ohio. He graduated from Dartmouth College in 1826, then went to Washington D.C., where he studied law under William Wirt, who also at this time was United States attorney general. Wirt was also known to have participated in many of the most important Supreme Court cases...[Read More] (Bio by: Ugaalltheway)
  Spring Grove Cemetery, Cincinnati, Hamilton County, Ohio, USA
  Plot: Section 30
  GPS coordinates: 39.1681290, -84.5270004 (hddd.dddd)
   
• Chase, Samuel    b. April 17, 1741  d. June 19, 1811
  Signer of the Declaration of Independence from Maryland. Born in Somerset County, Maryland, his mother died soon after his birth, and when he was three years old, his father, a minister, moved the family to Baltimore. There he received his early schooling from his father, before studying law in Annapolis. When he was twenty, he set up practice as a lawyer, and the same year, married Anne Baldwin. They would have seven children. In 1764, he was elected to serve in the Maryland General...[Read More] (Bio by: Kit and Morgan Benson)
  Old Saint Paul's Cemetery, Baltimore, Baltimore city, Maryland, USA
   

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