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Who did President John F. Kennedy appoint Marshall to the U.S. Court of Appeals for in 1961?
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President John F. Kennedy appointed Thurgood Marshall to the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit in 1961. Marshall had been the chief counsel for the NAACP Legal Defense and Education Fund, and had argued the landmark case Brown v. Board of Education before the Supreme Court in 1954.
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