John Marshall Harlan (June 1 1833 – October 14 1911) was an American lawyer and politician from Kentucky who served as an associate justice on the U.S. Supreme Court. He is best known for his role as the lone dissenter in the Civil Rights Cases (1883) and Plessy v. Ferguson (1896) which respectively struck down as unconstitutional federal anti-discrimination legislation and upheld southern segregation statutes. These dissents among others led to his nickname of The Great Dissenter.
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alma mater
Transylvania University, Centre College
birth date
1833-06-01
birth place
Kentucky, Boyle County Kentucky
death date
1911-10-14
death place
Washington D.C.
order in office
Associate Justice of the United States Supreme Court
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