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HARRY A. BLACKMUN
was born in Nashville, Illinois, on November 12, 1908.
He spent his early years in the St. Paul area of Minnesota.
Blackmun was graduated from Harvard University in 1929
and Harvard Law School in 1932. Blackmun returned to
Minnesota and served for one and a half years as a law
clerk to Judge John B. Sanborn of the United States
Court of Appeals for the Eighth Circuit, whom he succeeded
on that Court more than twenty-five years later. IN
1934, Blackmun entered private practice with a Minneapolis
firm and remained there until 1950. During that time
he served on the adjunct faculty at the University of
Minnesota Law School and the St. Paul College of Law.
In 1950, Blackmun became in-house counsel to the Mayo
Foundation and Mayo Clinic in Rochester, Minnesota.
President Dwight D. Eisenhower appointed Blackmun to
the United States Court of Appeals for the Eighth Circuit
in 1959. President Richard M. Nixon nominated Blackmun
to the Supreme Court of the United States on April 14,
1970. The Senate confirmed the appointment on May 12,
1970. |
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