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Affiliation | Republican |
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Name | James B. Pearson |
Address | Prairie Village, Kansas , United States |
Email | None |
Website | None |
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May 07, 1920
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Died | January 13, 2009
(88 years)
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Contributor | RP |
Last Modifed | RBH Feb 22, 2022 04:28pm |
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Info | PEARSON, James Blackwood, a Senator from Kansas; born in Nashville, Davidson County, Tenn., May 7, 1920; with his parents moved to Virginia in 1934 and attended the public schools of that State and Duke University, Durham, N.C.; during the Second World War interrupted schooling to serve as a pilot in the Naval Air Transport of the United States Navy, 1943-1946, and was discharged as a lieutenant; graduated from the law school of the University of Virginia at Charlottesville in 1950; was admitted to the bar and commenced the practice of law in Mission, Kans., in 1950; assistant county attorney of Johnson County, Kans., 1952-1954; county probate judge 1954-1956; member, State senate 1956-1960; did not seek reelection but returned to the practice of law; appointed January 31, 1962, as a Republican to the United States Senate to fill the vacancy caused by the death of Andrew F. Schoeppel; elected in November 1962, for the term ending January 3, 1967; reelected in 1966 for a full six-year term, and again in 1972, and served from January 31, 1962, until his resignation December 23, 1978; was not a candidate for reelection in 1978; is a resident of Washington, D.C.
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ENDORSEMENTS |
Supreme Court - Associate Justice - Dec 17, 1975 |
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John Paul Stevens |
Supreme Court - Associate Justice - Dec 15, 1971 |
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William H. Rehnquist |
Supreme Court - Associate Justice - Dec 09, 1971 |
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Lewis Franklin Powell, Jr. |
Supreme Court - Associate Justice - May 17, 1970 |
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Harry Blackmun |
Supreme Court - Associate Justice - Apr 08, 1970 |
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G. Harrold Carswell |
Supreme Court - Associate Justice - Nov 21, 1969 |
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Clement Furman Haynsworth, Jr. |
Supreme Court - Chief Justice - Jun 23, 1969 |
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Warren E. Burger |
Supreme Court - Associate Justice - Aug 30, 1967 |
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Thurgood Marshall |
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