Harry Blackmun served as an Associate Justice of the Supreme Court of the United States from 1970 to 1994. Born in Nashville, Illinois, in 1908, he studied at Harvard College and Harvard Law School, clerked for a judge of the Eighth Circuit, practiced law in Minneapolis and served as counsel to the Mayo organizations in Rochester, Minnesota. President Dwight Eisenhower nominated him to the Court of Appeals for the Eighth Circuit in 1959 and President Richard Nixon nominated him to the Supreme Court in April 1970. He assumed senior status in 1994 and died in Arlington, Virginia, in 1999.
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Source Legal Information Institute, Cornell Law School: Roe v. Wade, 410 U.S. 113 (1973)
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