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|party=[[Democrat]]<ref>https://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-srv/national/longterm/supcourt/stories/powell082698.htm ''The Washington Post''. Retrieved August 31st, 2020</ref>

|party=[[Democrat]]<ref>[https://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-srv/national/longterm/supcourt/stories/powell082698.htm Retired Justice Lewis Powell Dies at 90]. ''The Washington Post''. Retrieved August 31st, 2020</ref>

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|spouse=Josephine Pierce Rucker

|religion=[[Presbyterian]]

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|rank=[[Colonel]]

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|branch=[[United States Army]]

|branch=[[United States Army]]

|serviceyears=1942-1945

|serviceyears=1942 – 1945

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'''Lewis F. Powell Jr.''' (1907-1998) was appointed at the age of 64 by President [[Richard Nixon]] in 1972 to be an Associate Justice of the [[U.S. Supreme Court]], where he was a swing vote on controversial issues ranging from [[affirmative action]] to aid to parochial schools to [[homosexuality]]. From [[Virginia]], where he was born and practiced law, he remained affiliated with the South and took the seat due to the retirement of another southerner, Justice [[Hugo Black]].  Powell served on the [[Supreme Court]] for only 15 years.  His retirement in 1987 led to the hotly debated appointment by President [[Ronald Reagan]] of [[Robert Bork]], who was defeated in confirmation hearings by the [[U.S. Senate]].

'''Lewis F. Powell, Jr.''' (September 19, 1907 – August 25, 1998) was appointed at the age of 64 by President [[Richard Nixon]] in 1972 to be an Associate Justice of the [[U.S. Supreme Court]], where he was a swing vote on controversial issues ranging from [[affirmative action]] to aid to parochial schools to [[homosexuality]]. From [[Virginia]], where he was born and practiced law, he remained affiliated with the South and took the seat due to the retirement of another southerner, Justice [[Hugo Black]].  Powell served on the [[Supreme Court]] for only 15 years.  His retirement in 1987 led to the hotly debated appointment by President [[Ronald Reagan]] of [[Robert Bork]], who was defeated in confirmation hearings by the [[U.S. Senate]].

His most important opinion was his concurrence in ''[[Regents of the University of California v. Bakke]]'' (1978), in which he opposed racial quotas in admissions processes but allowed the use of race as an admissions criterion.

His most important opinion was his concurrence in ''[[Regents of the University of California v. Bakke]]'' (1978), in which he opposed racial quotas in admissions processes but allowed the use of race as an admissions criterion.