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No. Thurgood Marshall was the first African-American to serve on the US Supreme Court. President Johnson nominated him as an Associate Justice in 1967 and he remained on the Court until his retirement in 1991. Thurgood Marshall was succeeded by incumbent Associate Justice Clarence Thomas.

John Marshall was Chief Justice of the Supreme Court from 1801 until his death in 1835. He is widely considered the most influential Chief Justice in history.

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Justice Marshall served on the US Supreme Court from 1967-1991.

A brilliant attorney, Marshall is also remembered as the NAACP Legal Defense Fund counsel who argued Brown v. Board of Education before the US Supreme Court in 1954. The landmark decision in Brown lead to desegregation of the public schools, and overturned the "separate but equal" doctrine established in Plessy v. Ferguson, (1896).

Justice Thurgood Marshall died January 24, 1993.


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President Lyndon Johnson nominated Thurgood Marshall to replace Justice Tom C. Clark, a Truman appointee who retired in 1967. Justice Marshall served on the US Supreme Court from June 1967 until his retirement in June 1991.


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President Lyndon Johnson appointed Justice Thurgood Marshal to the US Supreme Court in 1967; he served until his retirement in 1991, almost 24 years to the day.

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Thurgood Marshall was a an Associate Justice of the United States Supreme Court. He was the 96th justice and it's first African American justice. He served from 1967 - 1991.

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President Lyndon Johnson appointed Justice Marshall to the US Supreme Court in 1967.

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Thurgood Marshall was nominated to the US Supreme Court by President Lyndon B. Johnson

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