John Marshall Harlan #44 (1833-1911)
John Marshall Harlan #44 (1833-1911) Justice Harlan was nominated to the court by President Rutherford Hayes who took his seat by acclamation in 1881. Harlan was born in Kentucky to a slaveholding family but he was the only Justice to dissent in the case of Plessey v Ferguson. Until the 1880’s white and black Americans mixed freely.
John Marshall Harlan II #89 (1899-1971), William J. Brennan, Jr. #90 (1908-1997)
John Marshall Harlan II #89 (1899-1971) Harlan was nominated to the Court by Dwight D. Eisenhower he was accepted by the senate and was sworn on March 28, 1955.
William J. Brennan, Jr. #90 (1908-1997) had no forefather on the Court he was nominated the old-fashioned way. Brennan stayed on the Court for thirty-three years.