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Sherman Minton

associate justice of the U.S. Supreme Court
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Associate Professor of Political Science, Queens University of Charlotte. Coauthor of Misreading the Bill of Rights.
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Sherman Minton (born October 20, 1890, near Georgetown, Indiana, U.S.β€”died April 9, 1965, New Albany, Indiana) was an associate justice of the Supreme Court of the United States (1949–56). Minton was the son of John Evan Minton, a farmer, and Emma Lyvers Minton. He attended Indiana University, where he graduated in 1915 at the top of his class in the law college. The following year he earned a master of laws degree at Yale Law...

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