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WILLIAM J.
BRENNAN, JR., was born on April 25, 1906, in Newark, New
Jersey. He was graduated from the University of Pennsylvania
in 1928 and received a law degree from Harvard University
in 1931. After admission to the bar in 1932, Brennan joined
a law firm and practiced until he began his military service
in the Army with the outbreak of World War II and served
as a member of the staff of the Under Secretary of War.
When the War ended in 1945, he returned to Newark and
resumed his law practice. In 1949, Governor Alfred E.
Driscoll appointed Brennan to the newly created New Jersey
Superior Court. The following year he was elevated to
the Appellate Division of the Superior Court and two years
later to the State Supreme Court. On October 16, 1956,
President Dwight D. Eisenhower gave Brennan a recess appointment
to the United States Supreme Court. Three months later,
on January 14, 1957, Brennan was formally nominated to
the Court, and the Senate confirmed the appointment on
March 19, 1957. After thirty-three years of service, Brennan
retired from the Supreme Court on July 20,l 1990, at the
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