death_date children termstart termend birth_date term_end nominator alma_mater death_place imagesize order term_start spouse image name caption resting_place predecessor birth_place president office successor religion article_title
24 january 1993 thurgood marshall , jr. , john w. marshall october 2 , 1967 august 1965 october 1 , 1991 august 1967 2 july 1908 august 1965 lyndon b. johnson john f. kennedy lincoln university howard university school of law bethesda , maryland , u.s. 220px 32nd august 1961 vivien -rrb- -lrb- her death -rrb- cecilia suyat -lrb- 1955 -- `` 1993 -rrb- -lrb- his death -rrb- buster '' burey -lrb- 1929 -- 1955 thurgood-marshall-2 . jpg thurgood marshall marshall in 1976 arlington national cemetery tom c. clark archibald cox '' new seat '' baltimore , maryland , u.s. lyndon b. johnson associate states solicitor general judge of the united states court of justice appeals for the second circuit of the united states supreme court united clarence thomas erwin n. griswold wilfred feinberg episcopalian thurgood marshall

thurgood marshall

thurgood marshall -lrb- july 2 , 1908january 24 , 1993 -rrb- was an associate justice of the united states supreme court , serving from october 1967 until october 1991 .
marshall was the court 's 96th justice and its first african-american justice .
before becoming a judge , marshall was a lawyer who was best known for his high success rate in arguing before the supreme court and for the victory in `` brown v. board of education '' , a decision that desegregated public schools .
he served on the united states court of appeals for the second circuit after being appointed by president john f. kennedy and then served as the solicitor general after being appointed by president lyndon johnson in 1965 .
president johnson nominated him to the united states supreme court in 1967 .
