Clement Haynsworth

[1] Haynsworth was nominated by President Dwight D. Eisenhower on February 19, 1957, to a seat on the United States Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit vacated by Judge Armistead Mason Dobie.He assumed senior status on April 6, 1981, until his death on November 22, 1989, in Greenville, South Carolina.[1][2] On August 21, 1969, President Richard Nixon nominated Haynsworth to be an associate justice of the United States Supreme Court on the recommendation of South Carolina Democratic Sen. Fritz Hollings.[3][4] He was proposed to succeed associate justice Abe Fortas, who had resigned over conflict of interest charges.[8] Haynsworth was the first Supreme Court nominee to be defeated by the Senate since the rejection of Judge John J. Parker (also of the Fourth Circuit) in 1930.
A pro-Haynsworth protester, 1970
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