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William O. Douglas was born in Maine, Minnesota on October 16, 1898, and raised in Washington state. When he was three, he contracted polio, and his mother, Julia Bickford, daily massaged his legs for several two hours until Douglas was able to walk again. His father, William, was a Presbyterian minister who died from complications after ...
The William O. Douglas Film Project is valuable as a vehicle to help secure Justice Douglas’ place in history. The end result of this project is to create an educational asset for use in institutions, libraries, and media centers for environmental and legal studies. Sales can be structured to allow the institutions public performance rights ...
Nov 15, 2004 · Yakima Boyhood. William Orville Douglas was born on October 16, 1898, in the town of Maine, Minnesota. He was the second of three children of William and Julia Douglas. His older sister Martha was born in 1897 and his brother Art in 1902. Douglas nearly died from a high fever shortly before his second birthday and was seriously ill for weeks.
Douglas suffered a stroke at the end of 1974 and retired from the court late the next year. He died in Washington, D.C., on Jan. 19, 1980. (1898–1980). For more than 36 years William O. Douglas served as an associate justice of the Supreme Court of the United States, the longest time served on record. Known as a….
William O. Douglas’s involvement with the SEC began with his criticism of the Securities Act of 1933 while serving as a professor at Yale Law School. Prior to joining the Yale Law School faculty, Douglas was a law professor at Columbia Law School.
William O. Douglas served on the Supreme Court of the United States for over 36 years, from 1939 to 1975, the longest term of any Justice. His tenure was marked by an unyielding and brilliantly executed determination to- as he frequently put it- "keep the government off the backs of the people."
William O. Douglas was a beacon for the preservation of wild places and individual freedom, by word and by example. These were parallel rights to be defended without reservation. Seattle, Washington book signing 1950
