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In 1967, Marshall was nominated to replace which Justice on the Supreme Court?

  • Tom C. Clark

  • Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.

  • Byron White

  • Hugo Black

Answer

In 1967, President Lyndon B. Johnson nominated Thurgood Marshall to replace Tom C. Clark on the Supreme Court. Marshall was the first African American to serve on the Supreme Court.
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