Harry A. Blackmun
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Harry A. Blackmun (1908 - 1999) was an American attorney who served as an associate justice of the Supreme Court of the United States from 1970 to 1994. Selected from the Eighth Circuit court for the Supreme Court by President Richard Nixon, Blackmun ultimately became one of the most liberal justices on the Court. He is best known as the author of the Court's opinion in Roe v. Wade.[1]
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- ↑ Greenhouse 2005, p. 250.