Henry Billings Brown
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About
Served as an associate justice of the U.S. Supreme Court from 1890 to 1906.
Before Fame
He graduated from Yale College in 1856.
Trivia
He was best known for authoring the 1896 decision in the Plessy v. Ferguson case, which ruled that racial segregation in public facilities was constitutional under the "separate but equal" doctrine.
Family Life
He married Caroline Pitts in 1864.
Associated With
He was nominated to the Supreme Court by President Benjamin Harrison.
