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...side-John Adams appointed John Marshall Chief Justice a month before leaving office-and he will almost certainly ignore their demand. Immediate speculation as to his choice centered on two Associate Justices: Abe Fortas, Johnson's close friend and his first appointee to the court, and William Brennan Jr., who shares Warren's philosophy on most issues...
William J. Brennan Jr., LL.D., Supreme Court Justice...
Harvard gave honorary degrees also to John H. Finley '25, retiring as Master of Eliot House; and two Law School alumni, Secretary of Labor W. Willard Wirtz and Associate Justice William J. Brennan Jr. of the United States Supreme Court...
William J. Brennan Jr. was appointed to the Supreme Court in October, 1956 by President Eisenhower. Born in Newark in 1906, he graduated from Penn in 1928, and Harvard Law in 1931, and became first a labor lawyer and later a judge in New Jersey. At an alumni luncheon at Harvard Law School yesterday, Brennan cited a breakdown in communication between dissenters and the decision-makers in this country...
Noon, Harvard Graduate Society and Law School Alumni Luncheon, Harkness Quadrangle. Speakers will be William J. Brennan Jr., Associate Justice of the Supreme Court; and David McCord, poet...