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Louis Brandeis

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Melvin Urofsky on 'Louis D. Brandeis: A Life'

 

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Life & Legacy of Supreme Court Justice Louis Brandeis Preview

 

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1st June 1916: Louis Brandeis becomes the first Jewish justice on the U.S. Supreme Court

 

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100th Anniversary of Justice Louis Brandeis Nomination Preview

 

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Would Jew Guess - Louis D. Brandeis

Louis Dembitz Brandeis was an American lawyer and associate justice on the Supreme Court of the United States from 1916 to 1939. He was born in Louisville, Kentucky, to Jewish immigrant parents from Bohemia, who raised him in a secular home. He attended Harvard Law School, graduating at the age of twenty with what is widely rumored to be the highest grade average in the law school's history. Brandeis settled in Boston, where he founded a law firm and became a recognized lawyer through his work on progressive social causes.
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