Henry Billings Brown
Henry Billings Brown was an associate justice of the Supreme Court of the United States from 29 December 1890 to 28 May 1906. A respected lawyer and U.S. District Judge in Detroit, Michigan, before ascending to the high court, Brown authored hundreds of opinions in his 31 years as a federal judge, including the majority opinion in Plessy v. Ferguson in 1896, which upheld the legality of racial segregation in public transportation and implicitly provided approval for the system of Jim Crow laws until Brown v. Board of Education in 1954.
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Male
Date of Birth
March 2nd, 1836
Age
190
Birth Place
United States of America, Massachusetts
Date of Death
March 2nd, 1913
Died Aged
77
Star Sign
Pisces
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