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Harry Blackmun  

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  • Harry Blackmun (1908–1999) was born in Illinois but grew up in Saint Paul, Minnesota, before earning undergraduate and law degrees at Harvard University. President Dwight D. Eisenhower appointed him to the U.S. Eighth Circuit Court of Appeals in 1959, and President Richard M. Nixon, who had stressed law and order, appointed him to the Supreme Court in 1971, where he served until 1994. [Source: Encyclopedia of the Fourth Amendment; Blackmun, Harry]

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