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Douglas, William Orville
Born: 1898 AD
Died: 1980 AD, at 82 years of age.
Nationality: Unknown
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Died: 1980 AD, at 82 years of age.
Nationality: Unknown
Categories: None
US administrator and jurist
member of Securities and Exchange Commission 1934-1936 (SEC)
chairman of Securities and Exchange Commission 1936-1939 (SEC)
Supreme Court justice 1939-1975 (longest term of any justice)
wrote decisions for Gray v. Sanders 1963 (8-1, state legislative apportionment favoring rural voters is unconstitutional
established "one man, one vote" rule), Griswold v. Connecticut 1965 (7-2, states cannot outlaw use of contraceptives), Harper v. Virginia State Board of Elections 1966 (7-2, state poll taxes are unconstitutional)
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- "Common sense often makes good law."
- "Solitude is the beginning of all freedom."
- "The right to be let alone is indeed the beginning of all freedom."
- "Religious experiences which are as real as life to some may be incomprehensible to others."
- "Restriction of free thought and free speech is the most dangerous of all subversions. It is the one un-American act that could most easily defeat us."
