The official reason was that Marshall had been Solicitor General when the case began. However it was also likely because there was a great deal of animosity between Marshall and the Nation of Islam. Marshall once called the Nation "a bunch of thugs organized in prisons and jails." The Nation beleived Marshall to be part of the white establishment.
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Henry Clay, Thomas Jefferson, John Marshall, and James Monroe.
Henry Clay Lewis died in 1850.
Henry Clay Smith died in 1945.
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