John Marshall Harlan II assumes post on U.S. Supreme Court 60 years ago today (Mar 28 1955)


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(Monday, March 28, 1955) — John Marshall Harlan was sworn in today as an associate justice of the Supreme Court. The New Yorker became the eighty-ninth man to sit on the high bench since the Federal judiciary was established in 1789.