Which President appointed Marshall as the U.S. Solicitor General?
Lyndon B. Johnson
John F. Kennedy
Richard Nixon
Jimmy Carter
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Lyndon B. Johnson appointed Thurgood Marshall as the U.S. Solicitor General in 1965. Marshall was a civil rights lawyer who had argued several cases before the Supreme Court, including Brown v. Board of Education of Topeka. He was the first African American to serve as Solicitor General.
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