Clarence Thomas
Clarence Thomas is an Associate Justice of the Supreme Court of the United States. He was nominated by President George H. W. Bush and confirmed by the U.S. Senate to succeed Thurgood Marshall and is the second African American to serve on the Court. Thomas’s earliest known ancestors were slaves named Sandy and Peggy, who were born in the late 18th century and owned by wealthy planter Josiah Wilson of Liberty County, Georgia.
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Clarence Thomas is an Associate Justice of the Supreme Court of the United States. He was nominated by President George H. W. Bush and confirmed by the U.S. Senate to succeed Thurgood Marshall and is the second African American to serve on the Court. Thomas grew up in Savannah, Georgia, and was educated at the College of the Holy Cross and Yale Law School. Thomas’s earliest known ancestors were slaves named Sandy and Peggy, who were born in the late 18th century and owned by wealthy planter Josiah Wilson of Liberty County, Georgia. Thomas is viewed by many writers as the most conservative member of the court. He is also known for having gone over a decade without asking any questions during oral arguments. Thomas has served as the Senior Associate Justice, the longest-serving member. of the Court, since 2018 with a tenure of 29 years, 46 days as of December 8, 2020. Thomas calls his grandfather \”the greatest man I have ever known.\’ Thomas was the second of three children born to M. C. Thomas, a farm worker, and Leola Williams, a domestic worker. His grandfather believed in hard work and self-reliance, and he would counsel the children to \”never let the sun catch you in bed.\’ He attended the predominantly Black St. Pius X high school for two years before transferring to St. John Vianney’s Minor Seminary on the Isle of Hope, where he was an honor student among few Black students.
He also briefly attended Conception Seminary College, a Roman Catholic seminary in Missouri. In a number of interviews, Thomas stated that he left the seminary after the assassination of Martin Luther King, Jr. He did not think the church did enough to combat racism. At a nun’s suggestion, Thomas enrolled at Holy Cross College of Massachusetts as a sophomore. While there, he helped found the Black Student Union. He once joined a walkout of the school after some Black students were punished while white students went undisciplined for committing the same violation of the same crime. Thomas once overheard another student say, “Good, I hope the son of a bitch died” after the shooting, after he overheard that he had overheard a Black student say that he hoped Luther King Jr. had died. In 1982, President Ronald Reagan appointed Thomas Chairman of the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission. He served in that role for 16 months before filling Marshall’s seat on the U S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit. Thomas was elected to the U S. Supreme Court in 1988. He has a son and a daughter, both of whom he has raised with the help of his wife, Jodi Thomas, and a son-in-law, Michael Thomas, who is a lawyer. Thomas and his wife have a son, Michael, who was born in 1998 and has a daughter with the same name, Jodie Thomas, as well as a stepson, Michael J. Thomas.
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