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Thurgood Marshall

1908 - 1993

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Thoroughgood "Thurgood" Marshall (July 2, 1908 – January 24, 1993) was an American civil rights lawyer and jurist who served as an associate justice of the Supreme Court of the United States from 1967 until 1991. He was the Supreme Court's first African-American justice. Prior to his judicial service, he was an attorney who fought for civil rights, leading the NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Thurgood Marshall has received more than 10,868,834 page views. His biography is available in 36 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 33 in 2019). Thurgood Marshall is the 16th most popular judge (up from 17th in 2019), the 4,286th most popular biography from United States (up from 4,642nd in 2019) and the 7th most popular American Judge.

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    Languages Editions (L)

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Among JUDGES

Among judges, Thurgood Marshall ranks 16 out of 53. Before him are Panagiotis Pikrammenos, Earl Warren, Maryanne Trump Barry, Georg Konrad Morgen, Vassiliki Thanou-Christophilou, and Clarence Thomas. After him are Edward Coke, Antonin Scalia, Fathima Beevi, Stephen Breyer, Sonia Sotomayor, and Samuel Alito.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1908, Thurgood Marshall ranks 183. Before him are Edward R. Murrow, Jorge Oteiza, Vaikom Muhammad Basheer, Alfons Rebane, Štefan Čambal, and Pedro Arico Suárez. After him are Boris Polevoy, Ștefan Barbu, Jean Effel, Edoardo Amaldi, Arthur O'Connell, and Doria Shafik. Among people deceased in 1993, Thurgood Marshall ranks 131. Before him are Cyril Cusack, Andrey Nikolayevich Tikhonov, Moses Gunn, Edward Bernard Raczyński, Nicanor Zabaleta, and Karl Mai. After him are Friedrich Dickel, Hans Christian Blech, Valentina Grizodubova, Wilhelm Gliese, Yuri Bezmenov, and Mick Ronson.

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In United States

Among people born in United States, Thurgood Marshall ranks 4,286 out of 20,380. Before him are Tony Todd (1954), Celeste Holm (1917), Tomas Arana (1955), Victor Wong (1927), Beals Wright (1879), and Lysander Spooner (1808). After him are Sanford B. Dole (1844), Richard F. Outcault (1863), Roy Jones Jr. (1969), Kristanna Loken (1979), Barnum Brown (1873), and Bugs Moran (1893).

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Among JUDGES In United States

Among judges born in United States, Thurgood Marshall ranks 7. Before him are Ruth Bader Ginsburg (1933), John Roberts (1955), John Marshall (1755), Earl Warren (1891), Maryanne Trump Barry (1937), and Clarence Thomas (1948). After him are Antonin Scalia (1936), Stephen Breyer (1938), Sonia Sotomayor (1954), Samuel Alito (1950), Anthony Kennedy (1936), and Warren E. Burger (1907).

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