Henry Billings Brown was an Associate Justice of the Supreme Court of the United States from 1891 to 1906. Born in South Lee, Massachusetts, in 1836, he studied at Yale and Harvard, practiced law in Detroit, served as a deputy United States marshal and assistant United States attorney, and was a federal district judge in Michigan from 1875 to 1890. President Benjamin Harrison nominated him to the Court in December 1890. He retired from the Court in 1906 and died in Bronxville, New York, in 1913.
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Source Legal Information Institute, Cornell Law School: Plessy v. Ferguson, 163 U.S. 537 (1896)
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1. Legal Information Institute, Cornell Law School: Plessy v. Ferguson, 163 U.S. 537 (1896)
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Mr. Justice BROWN, after stating the facts in the foregoing language, delivered the opinion of the court.
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Mr. Justice BROWN, after stating the facts in the foregoing language, delivered the opinion of the court.
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