John Marshall Harlan
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Most Influential Person Across History
US Supreme Court justice from 1877 to 1911
Why Is John Marshall Harlan Influential?
(Suggest an Edit or Addition)According to Wikipedia, John Marshall Harlan was an American lawyer and politician who served as an associate justice of the Supreme Court of the United States from 1877 until his death in 1911. He is often called "The Great Dissenter" due to his many dissents in cases that restricted civil liberties, including the Civil Rights Cases, Plessy v. Ferguson, and Giles v. Harris. Many of Harlan's views expressed in his notable dissents would become the official view of the Supreme Court starting from the 1950s Warren Court and onward. His grandson John Marshall Harlan II was also a Supreme Court justice.
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