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Up for sale "Supreme Court Justice" Tom C Clark Hand Written Letter.
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Thomas Campbell Clark (September 23,
1899 – June 13, 1977) was an American lawyer who served as the 59th United States Attorney
General from 1945 to 1949. He was an Associate Justice of
the Supreme Court of the
United States from 1949 to 1967. Born
in Dallas, Texas, Clark
graduated from the University of Texas School
of Law after serving in World War I. He practiced law in Dallas until 1937, when he
accepted a position in the United
States Department of Justice. After Harry S. Truman became President of the United
States in 1945, he chose Clark as his Attorney General. In
1949, Truman successfully nominated Clark to fill the Supreme Court vacancy
caused by the death of Associate Justice Frank Murphy. Clark remained on the court until his retirement
in 1967, and was succeeded by Thurgood Marshall. Clark retired so that his son, Ramsey Clark, could assume the position of Attorney General. Clark
served on the Vinson Court and
the Warren Court. He voted
with the Court's majority in the several cases concerning racial
segregation, including the landmark case of Brown v. Board of
Education. He wrote the majority opinion in landmark Mapp v. Ohio,
which ruled that the Fourth Amendment prohibition against unreasonable searches
and seizures applies to the states through the Fourteenth Amendment. He also
wrote the majority opinion in Heart of Atlanta
Motel v. United States, which upheld the public accommodations
provision of the Civil Rights Act of 1964,
and the majority opinions in Garner v. Board of Public
Works, Joseph Burstyn, Inc. v.
Wilson, and Abington
School District v. Schempp.