Henry Billings Brown

Former Associate Justice of the U.S. Supreme Court
From: December 29, 1890 – May 28, 1906
Nominator | Benjamin Harrison
Predecessor | Samuel F. Miller
Successor | William Henry Moody
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Party  | Republican

Religion  | Congregationalist

Henry Billings Brown was an Associate Justice of the Supreme Court of the United States for 16 years.[1] He was a staunch defender of property rights.[2]

Brown authored the majority opinion for the infamous case Plessy v. Ferguson \- which upheld segregation as constitutional and established the separate but equal doctrine.[2]

## References[edit]

1. ↑ Henry B. Brown (English). Oyez. Chicago-Kent College of Law.
2. ↑ 2.0 2.1 Henry Billings Brown (English). law.jrank.

The U.S. Supreme Court

Chief Justice Melville Fuller's Court (1888–1910)
| 1888–1889  |  Samuel F. Miller | Stephen Johnson Field | Joseph P. Bradley | John Harlan I | Stanley Matthews | Horace Gray | Samuel Blatchford | Lucius Q.C. Lamar II

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1890–1891  |  Stephen Johnson Field | Joseph P. Bradley | John Harlan I | Horace Gray | Samuel Blatchford | Lucius Q.C. Lamar II | David Brewer
1891–1892  |  Stephen Johnson Field | Joseph P. Bradley | John Harlan I | Horace Gray | Samuel Blatchford | Lucius Q.C. Lamar II | David Brewer | Henry B. Brown
1892–1893  |  Stephen Johnson Field | John Harlan I | Horace Gray | Samuel Blatchford | Lucius Q.C. Lamar II | David Brewer | Henry B. Brown | George Shiras, Jr.
1893  |  Stephen Johnson Field | John Harlan I | Horace Gray | Samuel Blatchford | David Brewer | Henry B. Brown | George Shiras, Jr. | Howell E. Jackson
1894–1895  |  Stephen Johnson Field | John Harlan I | Horace Gray | David Brewer | Henry B. Brown | George Shiras, Jr. | Howell E. Jackson | Edward D. White
1896–1897  |  Stephen Johnson Field | John Harlan I | Horace Gray | David Brewer | Henry B. Brown | George Shiras, Jr. | Edward D. White | Rufus W. Peckham
1898–1902  |  John Harlan I | Horace Gray | David Brewer | Henry B. Brown | George Shiras, Jr. | Edward D. White | Rufus W. Peckham | Joseph McKenna
1902–1903  |  John Harlan I | David Brewer | Henry B. Brown | George Shiras, Jr. | Edward D. White | Rufus W. Peckham | Joseph McKenna | Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.
1903–1906  |  John Harlan I | David Brewer | Henry B. Brown | Edward D. White | Rufus W. Peckham | Joseph McKenna | Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr. | William R. Day
1906–1909  |  John Harlan I | David Brewer | Edward D. White | Rufus W. Peckham | Joseph McKenna | Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr. | William R. Day | William Henry Moody
Jan–Mar 1910 |  John Harlan I | David Brewer | Edward D. White | Joseph McKenna | Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr. | William R. Day | William Henry Moody | Horace Lurton
Mar–Jul 1910  |  John Harlan I | Edward D. White | Joseph McKenna | Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr. | William R. Day | William Henry Moody | Horace Lurton