William Brennan was an Associate Justice of the Supreme Court of the United States from 1956 to 1990. Born in Newark, New Jersey, in 1906, he studied at the University of Pennsylvania and Harvard Law School, practiced in Newark, served as an Army colonel in the Second World War, and sat on the New Jersey Superior Court and the Supreme Court of New Jersey. President Dwight Eisenhower gave him a recess appointment in October 1956 and nominated him again in 1957. He assumed senior status in 1990 and died in Arlington, Virginia, in 1997.
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Source Legal Information Institute, Cornell Law School: Baker v. Carr, 369 U.S. 186 (1962)
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