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George Shiras Jr.
Associate Justice of the Supreme Court of the United States · 1892
George Shiras Jr., Associate Justice of the Supreme Court of the United States. George Shiras Jr. was an American lawyer who served as an associate justice of the Supreme Court of the United States from 1892 to 1903. At that time of his appointment, he had 37 years of private legal practice but had never judged a case. He is noted for his conservative voting with the majority in Pollock v. Farmers' Loan & Trust Co. and in Plessy v. Ferguson.
Positions
- Associate Justice of the Supreme Court of the United States1892-07-26–1903-02-23
Education
- Yale Law School
- Yale College1853
- Read law1855
Career
Private practice, Dubuque, Iowa, 1855-1858; Private practice, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, 1858-1892
Biography
George Shiras Jr. was an American lawyer who served as an associate justice of the Supreme Court of the United States from 1892 to 1903. At that time of his appointment, he had 37 years of private legal practice but had never judged a case. He is noted for his conservative voting with the majority in Pollock v. Farmers' Loan & Trust Co. and in Plessy v. Ferguson.
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