Antonin Scalia
| Antonin Scalia | |
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| Associate Justice of the Supreme Court of the United States | |
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In office September 26, 1986 – February 12/13, 2016 |
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| Nominated by | Ronald Reagan |
| Preceded by | William Rehnquist |
| Succeeded by | Neil Gorsuch (Nominee) |
| Judge of the United States Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit | |
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In office August 17, 1982 – September 26, 1986 |
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| Nominated by | Ronald Reagan |
| Preceded by | Roger Robb |
| Succeeded by | David Sentelle |
| United States Assistant Attorney General for the Office of Legal Counsel | |
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In office August 22, 1974 – January 20, 1977 |
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| President | Gerald Ford |
| Preceded by | Roger C. Cramton |
| Succeeded by | John Harmon |
| Personal details | |
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Antonin Gregory Scalia March 11, 1936 Trenton, New Jersey, U.S |
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February 12/13, 2016 (aged 79) Shafter, Texas, U.S. |
| Spouse(s) | Maureen McCarthy (m. 1960; his death 2016) |
| Children | 9 (including Eugene) |
| Education |
Georgetown University (BA) Harvard University (JD) |
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Antonin Gregory Scalia (
i/skəˈliːə/; March 11, 1936 – February 12/13, 2016) was an Associate Justice of the Supreme Court of the United States from 1986 until his death in 2016. Appointed to the Court by President Ronald Reagan in 1986, Scalia was described as the intellectual anchor for the originalist and textualist position in the Court's conservative wing.
Scalia was born in Trenton, New Jersey. He attended public grade school Xavier High School in Manhattan and then college at Georgetown University in Washington, D.C. He obtained his law degree from Harvard Law School and spent six years in a Cleveland law firm before becoming a law school professor at the University of Virginia. In the early 1970s, he served in the Nixon and Ford administrations, eventually as an Assistant Attorney General. He spent most of the Carter years teaching at the University of Chicago, where he became one of the first faculty advisers of the fledgling Federalist Society. In 1982, Ronald Reagan appointed him as judge of the United States Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit. In 1986, Reagan appointed him to the Supreme Court. Scalia was unanimously confirmed by the Senate, becoming the first Italian-American justice.
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