Henry Billings Brown

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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]

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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 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