Henry Billings Brown

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Henry Billings Brown
Former Associate Justice of the U.S. Supreme Court
From: December 29, 1890 – May 28, 1906
Nominator Benjamin Harrison
Predecessor Samuel F. Miller
Successor William Henry Moody
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Party Republican
Religion Congregationalist

Henry Billings Brown was an Associate Justice of the Supreme Court of the United States for 16 years.[1] He was a staunch defender of property rights.[2]

Brown authored the majority opinion for the infamous case Plessy v. Ferguson - which upheld segregation as constitutional and established the separate but equal doctrine.[2]

References

  1. Henry B. Brown (English). Oyez. Chicago-Kent College of Law.
  2. 2.0 2.1 Henry Billings Brown (English). law.jrank.