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To: Non-Sequitur

Actually, it looks like 3 Southern justices remained on the U.S. Supreme Court until their deaths (including Roger Taney, who died in 1864), one died in 1860 but was replaced by a Lincoln nominee rather than by a Buchanan nominee, and one resigned to go home to his state. There was also one justice from Ohio who died during this period.


89 posted on 09/10/2005 1:05:52 PM PDT by Verginius Rufus
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To: Verginius Rufus; Non-Sequitur; Roccus

For a while during the Civil War, Congress added a tenth Justice to the Supreme Court, to cancel the vote of a southerner who remained on the Court.


97 posted on 09/10/2005 6:35:40 PM PDT by Grand Old Partisan
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