Abe Fortas

Supreme Court Justice

Birthday June 19, 1910

Birth Sign Gemini

Birthplace Tennessee

DEATH DATE Apr 5, 1982 (71)

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About

Served as an associate justice of the U.S. Supreme Court from 1965 to 1969.

Before Fame

He graduated from Yale Law School in 1933.

Trivia

He broadly extended due process rights and procedures to legal minors when he was a Supreme Court justice.

Family Life

He married Carolyn E. Agger in 1935.

Associated With

He was nominated to the Supreme Court by President Lyndon B. Johnson.