[[Image:{{Officeholder|name=Abe Fortas|image=AbeFortas.jpg|thumbparty=|rightspouse=Carolyn E. Agger|250pxreligion=Jewish|offices= {{Officeholder/Supreme Court Justice |role=Associate |nominator=[[Lyndon B. Johnson]] |terms=October 4, 1965 – May 14, 1969 |preceded=[[Arthur Goldberg]] |former=y |succeeded=[[Harry Blackmun]] }}}}
'''Abe Fortas''' (1910-1982) was the only [[U.S. Supreme Court]] Justice to be forced to resign, after serving for only four years (1965-1969). He was a close personal friend of President [[Lyndon B. Johnson]], and they communicated frequently while Fortas was on the Supreme Court and Johnson was President. Johnson had hired Fortas when he was an attorney in Texas in 1948 to obtain Supreme Court intervention to preserve Johnson's fraudulent victory in the Democratic primary for [[U.S. Senate]]. Fortas persuaded U.S. Supreme Court Justice [[Hugo Black]] to intervene in favor of candidate Johnson, and forever Johnson viewed Fortas as the greatest attorney. In work for another client, Fortas successfully argued that criminal defendants have a right to appointed counsel at taxpayers' expense in ''[[Gideon v. Wainwright]]'' (1963).
*[http://education-research.org/PDFs/Silvermaster136.pdf FBI Silvermaster file, Volume 136 February 1948].
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