John Marshall Harlan | Wikipedia audio article
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Date: 2018-12-05

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John Marshall Harlan


00:01:28 1 Early life and education
00:03:37 2 Career
00:03:46 2.1 Politics
00:07:17 2.2 United States Supreme Court
00:07:26 2.2.1 Nomination
00:08:14 2.2.2 Life on the Court
00:09:31 2.2.3 Jurisprudence
00:16:41 3 Personal life
00:17:47 3.1 Religious beliefs
00:18:17 4 Later life and death
00:18:45 5 Legacy and honors



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John Marshall Harlan (June 1, 1833 – October 14, 1911) was an American lawyer and politician who served as an associate justice on the U.S. Supreme Court.
Harlan was born at Harlan's Station, 5 miles (8.0 km) west of Danville, Kentucky on Salt River Road, in 1833 to a prominent family. He attended school in Frankfort and then graduated from Centre College. Harlan entered Kentucky politics in 1851, and served a variety of positions, most notably Attorney General of Kentucky, from 1863 to 1867. When the American Civil War broke out, Harlan strongly supported the Union, although he opposed the Emancipation Proclamation and supported slavery. However, after the election of Ulysses S. Grant as President in 1868, he reversed his views and became a strong supporter of civil rights. In 1877, Harlan was appointed a member of the  Supreme Court.
A Christian fundamentalist, Harlan's Christian beliefs strongly shaped his views during his tenure as Supreme Court justice. He is best known for his role as the lone dissenter in the Civil Rights Cases (1883), and Plessy v. Ferguson (1896), which, respectively, struck down as unconstitutional federal anti-discrimination legislation and upheld southern segregation statutes. These dissents, among others, led to his nickname of "The Great Dissenter".