Marshall was the first African American justice and spent his life fighting for equality. As a young man he had experienced discrimination first hand. He was the lawyer for Brown v Topeka and argued that separate but equal was not equal at all. He was a great man and powerful ally for equality and civil rights for all.
There has not been an African American Chief Justice of the US Supreme Court. The first African American Associate Justice was the Honorable Thurgood Marshall.
John Marshall was the Chief Justice during the 1803 case Marbury vs. Madison. This case increased the Supreme Court's power when Marshall established the principle of judicial review. This gave the Supreme Court power to overturn laws passed by Congress on grounds of unconstitutionality.
Chief Justice Roger B. Taney replaced Chief Justice John Marshall after Marshall's death in 1835.
Chief Justice of the Supreme Court (the title hadn't yet been changed to Chief Justice of the United States).
John Marshall was the fourth Chief Justice of the Supreme Court (1801-1835); he didn't play a role in Gideon v. Wainwright,(1963), because he had been dead approximately 128 years by the time the case reached the Supreme Court. Chief Justice Earl Warren (1953-1969) presided over Gideon.
John Marshall was the Chief Justice of the Supreme Court. He is basically considered the "father of the supreme court." He established many important judicial precedents. In Marbury v. Madison, Marshall established the concept of judicial review.
One of John Marshall's accomplishments was to make the supreme court a co-branch of government. He did this when he was chief justice of the United States.
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Chief Justice John Marshall
Chief Justice John Marshall presided over the US Supreme Court from 1801 until his death in 1835.
which man served as chief justice of the united states supreme court
john marshall was the supreme court chief justice for 34 not 35.
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John Marshall was the chief justice of the supreme court from January 31, 1801- July 6, 1835.
President John Adams appointed John Marshall, his Secretary of State, to the office of Chief Justice of the Supreme Court in 1801. Marshall succeeded the third Chief Justice, Oliver Ellsworth.
Fourth Chief Justice John Marshall, who presided over the Court from 1801-1835.
Chief Justice John Marshall