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Abolitionist
Picked by, supported Lincoln
Upheld income tax
Biography
Hawkeye politics
Narrow Fourteenth Amendment
Prolific writer
Ran Lincoln’s campaign
Reigned in military courts
Resigned, joined Senate
California judge
Pushed substantive due process
Served second longest
Two terms in the HousePennsylvania judge, lawyer
Strauder opinion
Successful lawyer
Viewed women as wives, mothers
Made Hayes President
Appointed by Grant
Tried Susan B. Anthony
Disabled by stroke
Kentucky colonel
Argued incorporation
Plessy dissenter
Union general
Stayed south after Civil War
Little Court impact
Hayes nominated
Garfield renominated
Narrowly confirmed
Massachusetts judge
First Justice to hire clerk
Wrote long opinions
Founder of Cravath
Served as judge at three levels
Admiralty law
Opinion
Confederacy
Mississippi’s sole Justice
Cleveland appointee
Longtime Kansas judge
Substantive due process fan
Justice Field’s nephew
Lochner and Pollock cases
Plessy opinion
Lawyer from Pittsburgh
No prior public service
Pollock and Plessy
Tennessee Native
Unanimously confirmed
Tuberculosis