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Justice William O. Douglas
URI:
https://gptkb.org/entity/Justice_William_O._Douglas
GPTKB entity
Statements (54)
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Object
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gptkb:President_of_India
gptkb:person
gptkbp:almaMater
gptkb:Columbia_Law_School
gptkb:Whitman_College
gptkbp:appointedBy
gptkb:Franklin_D._Roosevelt
gptkbp:awards
gptkb:Presidential_Medal_of_Freedom
gptkbp:birthDate
1898-10-16
gptkbp:birthPlace
gptkb:Maine,_Minnesota,_USA
gptkbp:chairman
gptkb:U.S._Securities_and_Exchange_Commission
gptkbp:children
gptkb:Joan_Douglas
gptkb:William_Douglas_Jr.
gptkbp:deathDate
1980-01-19
gptkbp:deathPlace
gptkb:Bethesda,_Maryland,_USA
gptkbp:fullName
gptkb:William_Orville_Douglas
https://www.w3.org/2000/01/rdf-schema#label
Justice William O. Douglas
gptkbp:ideology
liberal
gptkbp:militaryService
gptkb:U.S._Army
gptkbp:nationality
gptkb:American
gptkbp:notableCase
gptkb:New_York_Times_Co._v._United_States
gptkb:Gideon_v._Wainwright
gptkb:Griswold_v._Connecticut
gptkb:Brandenburg_v._Ohio
gptkb:Sierra_Club_v._Morton
gptkb:Terminiello_v._City_of_Chicago
gptkb:Terry_v._Ohio
gptkb:United_States_v._Paramount_Pictures,_Inc.
gptkb:Zorach_v._Clauson
gptkb:Brady_v._Maryland
gptkbp:notableFor
environmentalist
strong civil libertarian views
longest-serving Justice in Supreme Court history
gptkbp:notableWork
gptkb:A_Wilderness_Bill_of_Rights
gptkb:Go_East,_Young_Man
gptkb:Of_Men_and_Mountains
gptkb:The_Court_Years,_1939_to_1975
Points of Rebellion
gptkbp:occupation
gptkb:lawyer
gptkb:professor
author
gptkbp:positionHeld
Associate Justice of the Supreme Court of the United States
gptkbp:predecessor
gptkb:Justice_Louis_Brandeis
gptkbp:religion
Presbyterian
gptkbp:serves
gptkb:U.S._Securities_and_Exchange_Commission
gptkbp:signature
William O. Douglas signature.svg
gptkbp:spouse
gptkb:Joan_Martin
gptkb:Kathleen_Heffernan
gptkb:Mercedes_Hester_Davidson
gptkb:Mildred_Riddle
gptkbp:successor
gptkb:Justice_John_Paul_Stevens
gptkbp:termEnd
1975-11-12
gptkbp:termStart
1939-04-17
gptkbp:bfsParent
gptkb:Sierra_Club_v._Morton
gptkb:Weinberger_v._Wiesenfeld
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