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Clement Haynsworth

Clement Haynsworth
Chief Judge on the United States Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit
In office
December 3, 1964 – April 6, 1981
Preceded by Simon Sobeloff
Succeeded by Harrison Winter
Judge on the United States Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit
In office
April 4, 1957 – April 6, 1981
Appointed by Dwight Eisenhower
Preceded by Armistead Dobie
Succeeded by Robert Chapman
Personal details
Born Clement Furman Haynsworth, Jr.
(1912-10-30)October 30, 1912
Greenville, South Carolina, U.S.
Died November 22, 1989(1989-11-22) (aged 77)
Greenville, South Carolina, U.S.
Political party Democratic
Education Furman University (BA)
Harvard University (LLB)
Military service
Allegiance  United States
Service/branch  United States Navy
Battles/wars World War II

Clement Furman Haynsworth, Jr. (October 30, 1912 – November 22, 1989), was a United States judge and an unsuccessful nominee for the United States Supreme Court.

Haynsworth was born in Greenville in northwestern South Carolina. He received a Bachelor of Arts from Furman University in 1933 and an LL.B. from Harvard Law School in 1936. He was in private practice of law in Greenville from 1936 to 1957, aside from his years of service in the United States Navy from 1942 to 1945 during World War II.

Haynsworth was a federal judge on the United States Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit, being nominated by U.S. President Dwight D. Eisenhower on February 19, 1957, to a seat vacated by Armistead Mason Dobie. Haynsworth was confirmed by the United States Senate on April 4, 1957, and received his commission the same day. He became chief judge in 1964.

On August 21, 1969, President Richard M. Nixon nominated Haynsworth to be an Associate Justice on the U.S. Supreme Court. He was proposed to succeed liberal justice Abe Fortas, who had resigned over conflict of interest charges. Haynsworth was opposed by a coalition of Democrats (possibly in retaliation for the Republicans' rejection of Fortas as Chief Justice),Rockefeller Republicans, and the NAACP. He was alleged to have made court decisions favoring segregation and of being reflexively anti-labor. Democratic U.S. Senator Philip Hart of Michigan said that Haynsworth's decisions on civil rights and labor management were "unacceptable," while Republican Senator Marlow Cook of Kentucky argued that Haynsworth was being "subjected to a character assassination that is unjustified." Cook argued that Haynsworth was "a man of honesty and a man of integrity."


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