Deaths

Deaths

Harry Andrew Blackmun, 90, associate justice of the U.S. Supreme Court (1970-1994) who wrote the majority opinion in Roe v. Wade (1973), 4 March 1999.

Nils Andreas Boe, 78, judge, U.S. Court of International Trade and former governor of South Dakota, 30 July 1992.

William Joseph Brennan Jr., 91, associate justice of the U.S. Supreme Court (1956-1990), 24 July 1997.

Vincent L. Broderick, 74, judge, U.S. District Court of the Southern District of New York, 3 March 1995.

Vincent J. Browne, 80, civilrights scholar at Howard University, 27 August 1997.

Warren Earl Burger, 88, chief justice of the U.S. Supreme Court (1969-1986) who wrote the decision in United States v. Richard Nixon (1974) establishing that claims of executive privilege do not shield presidents from judicial subpoenas, leading to the release of Nixon's tapes and ultimately to his resignation from the presidency, 25 June 1995.

Thomas Emmet Claire, judge, U.S. Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit, 24 September 1997.

Franklin T. Dupree, judge, U.S. District Court of the Eastern District of North Carolina, 17 December 1995.

Erika S. Fairchild, criminal-justice scholar at North Carolina State University, 25 November 1992.

Vincent W. Foster Jr., 48, lawyer, Deputy White House counsel to President Bill Clinton and former law partner of Hillary Rodham Clinton, 20 July 1993.

Ralph M. Freeman, 87, judge, U.S. District Court of the Eastern District of Michigan, 29 March 1990.

Arthur Joseph Goldberg, 81, associate justice of the U.S. Supreme Court (1962-1965), 19 January 1990.

Charles M. Hardin, 88, constitutional scholar at the University of California, Davis, 28 June 1997.

John R. Hargrove, judge, U.S. District Court of the State of Maryland, 1 April 1997.

Walter Edward Hoffman, 89, judge, U.S. District Court of the Eastern District of Virginia, 21 November 1996.

Frederick Landis, senior judge, U.S. Court of International Trade, 1 March 1990.

Lawrence T. Lydick, 79, judge, U.S. District Court of the Central District of California, 17 December 1995.

J. Daniel Mahoney, 65, judge, U.S. Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit, 23 October 1996.

Thurgood Marshall, 82, associate justice of the U.S. Supreme Court (1967-1991) who in 1954, as chief counsel for the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP), argued Brown v. Board of Education before the Supreme Court, 24 January 1993.

William Hughes Mulligan, 78, judge, U.S. Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit, 13 May 1996.

Helen Wilson Nies, 71, judge, U.S. Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit, 7 August 1996.

James E. Noland, 72, judge, U.S. District Court of the Southern District of Indiana, Indianapolis Division, 12 August 1992.

James Earl Ray, 70, assassin of Martin Luther King Jr. (4 April 1968), 23 April 1998.

Donald Russell, judge, U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit, 22 February 1998.

John Lewis Smith, judge, U.S. District Court of the District of Columbia, 4 September 1992.

Roszel C. Thomsen, judge, U.S. District Court of the State of Maryland, 11 March 1992.

William H. Timbers, judge, U.S. Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit, 26 November 1994.