predecessor successor death_date birth_place president death_place religion article_title office termstart termend birth_date birthname image spouse restingplace nominator
louis brandeis james m. landis john paul stevens jerome frank 19 january 1980 maine township , minnesota , u.s. franklin d. roosevelt bethesda , maryland , u.s. presbyterian william o. douglas
 associate states 3rd chairman of the securities and exchange commission justice of the supreme court of the united april 15 , 1939 1937 november 12 , 1975 1939 16 october 1898 william orville douglas justice william o douglas.jpg border mildred riddle 1923 1953 divorced arlington national cemetery franklin d. roosevelt
william o. douglas

william orville douglas -lrb- october 16 , 1898january 19 , 1980 -rrb- served as an associate justice of the supreme court of the united states .
nominated by president franklin d. roosevelt , douglas was confirmed at the age of 40 , one of the youngest justices appointed to the court .
his term , lasting 36 years and 209 days -lrb- 1939 -- 75 -rrb- , is the longest term in the history of the supreme court .
douglas holds a number of records as a supreme court justice , including the most opinions .
he was the 79th person appointed and confirmed to the bench of that court .
in 1975 `` time '' magazine called douglas `` the most doctrinaire and committed civil libertarian ever to sit on the court '' .
