Curated category
20th-century American lawyers
- Richard NixonRichard Milhous Nixon was born on the 9th of January 1913, in a small house built by his father on a lemon ranch in Yorba Linda, California.
- Barack ObamaBarack Obama was born on the 4th of August 1961, at Kapiolani Medical Center for Women and Children in Honolulu, Hawaii.
- Bill ClintonWilliam Jefferson Clinton was born on the 19th of August 1946 at the Julia Chester Hospital in Hope, Arkansas. His father died three months before his birth…
- Phillip FormanPhillip Forman entered the world on the 30th of November 1895, in New York City. He grew up instead in Trenton, New Jersey.
- Adam SilverAdam Silver was born on the 25th of April 1962 into a Jewish-American family in Rye, New York. His father Edward Silver worked as a lawyer specializing in…
- 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 Ray Grisham Jr. was born on the 8th of February 1955 in Jonesboro, Arkansas. His family moved to Southaven, Mississippi when he was four years old.
- Lee EastmanLeopold Vail Epstein entered the world on the 12th of January 1910. He was born into a Jewish family in New York City. His sister Rose Frisch became a noted…
- Thurgood MarshallThoroughgood Marshall was born on the 2nd of July 1908, in Baltimore, Maryland. His father worked as a waiter in hotels and railroad cars while his mother…
- David SternDavid Joel Stern entered the world on the 22nd of September 1942 in Manhattan. His family lived in Teaneck, New Jersey where his father ran a Jewish…
- Paul TagliabuePaul Tagliabue was born on the 24th of November 1940 in Jersey City, New Jersey. He grew up in The Heights neighborhood as the third son of Charles and May…
- George MikanGeorge Mikan stood six feet four inches tall in 1942 when he walked onto the DePaul University campus. He weighed just over two hundred pounds and moved with…
- Larry O'BrienLawrence Francis O'Brien Jr. was born on the 7th of July 1917 in Springfield, Massachusetts to Irish immigrant parents. He learned about politics at a very…