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John Mclean: Moderate Abolitionist And Supreme Court Politician, Paul Finkelman
John Mclean: Moderate Abolitionist And Supreme Court Politician, Paul Finkelman
Vanderbilt Law Review
His thirty-two years on the Supreme Court make him one of the twelve longest serving Justices in history. At the time of his death, he was the third longest serving Justice in the history of the Court, and he is sixth in length of service among all Justices who served before the twentieth century. He wrote about 240 majority opinions and about sixty separate concurring and dissenting opinions. Yet he is about as obscure a Justice as there has ever been. Few Justices have worked so hard for such a long period of time, and yet had so little impact …