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20th-century American lawyers

  • Richard NixonRichard Nixon was the only president in American history to resign from the office he held. On the 9th of August, 1974, he stepped away from the presidency…
  • Barack ObamaBarack Obama was born on the 4th of August 1961 at Kapiolani Medical Center for Women and Children in Honolulu, Hawaii, making him the only person to become…
  • Bill ClintonBill Clinton was born William Jefferson Blythe III on the 19th of August 1946, in Hope, Arkansas, three months after his father died in an automobile…
  • Phillip FormanPhillip Forman swore in Albert Einstein as a United States citizen in 1940. That moment, quiet and bureaucratic on its surface, placed a federal judge from…
  • Adam SilverAdam Silver was born on the 25th of April, 1962, into a family already shaped by the law. His father Edward Silver was a senior partner at the prominent firm…
  • Allison ShearmurAllison Ivy Brecker entered the world on the 23rd of October 1963 as one of four quadruplets born to Martin and Rhoda Brecker.
  • John GrishamJohn Grisham did not set out to write 37 consecutive number-one fiction bestsellers. He set out to survive. At 17, working an asphalt crew in Mississippi, he…
  • Lee EastmanLee Eastman was born Leopold Vail Epstein on the 12th of January 1910, in New York City, and he spent his life building two parallel worlds: one in law…
  • Thurgood MarshallThurgood Marshall walked into the Supreme Court as an advocate 32 times and walked out a winner 29 of those times. That record alone would make him one of…
  • David SternDavid Joel Stern was born on the 22nd of September 1942 in Manhattan, and he died on the 1st of January 2020 - New Year's Day - after a brain hemorrhage he…
  • Paul TagliabuePaul Tagliabue was born on the 24th of November, 1940, in Jersey City, New Jersey, the third of four sons. He died on the 9th of November, 2025, at his home…
  • George MikanGeorge Mikan stood six feet ten inches tall, weighed 245 pounds, and wore thick round spectacles , and he single-handedly forced professional basketball to…
  • Larry O'BrienLarry O'Brien was riding in the motorcade in Dallas on the 22nd of November 1963 when gunshots rang out. He watched President John F. Kennedy die.