Staff study on Abe Fortas, conducted by the Alabama Legislative Commission to Preserve the Peace.
Fortas, who represented Clarence Gideon in the landmark case of Gideon v. Wainwright, was appointed as an associate justice of the U.S. Supreme Court by President Lyndon Johnson in 1965. He served only four years, resigning in May 1969. The Alabama Legislative Commission to Preserve the Peace was es...
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Alabama Department of Archives and History
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| Online Access: | http://cdm17217.contentdm.oclc.org/cdm/ref/collection/voices/id/22864 |