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Supreme Court

United States of America · Government / Democratic Party Government. Chronological records rendered directly from the World History Database.

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Chronological records

1967

Lyndon Baines Johnson13 June 1967

Washington · Government / Democratic Party Government

Nominates Thurgood Marshall to the Supreme Court, leading to the first African American justice.

Names involved

Lyndon Baines Johnson

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