| Abe Fortas  Born: 19-Jun-1910
Birthplace: Memphis, TN
Died: 5-Apr-1982
Location of death: Washington, DC
Cause of death: unspecified
Remains: Cremated
Gender: Male
Religion: Jewish
Race or Ethnicity: White
Sexual orientation: Straight
Occupation: Judge
Party Affiliation: Democratic Nationality: United States
Executive summary: US Supreme Court Justice, 1965-69 Military service: US Army (medical discharge for eye tuberculosis) Father: William Fortas (cabinet maker, orthodox Jew)
Mother: Ray Berson
Wife: Carolyn Eugenia Agger (m. 9-Jul-1935, no children)
High School: South Side High School, Memphis, TN
University: Southwestern College, Memphis, TN (1930)
Law School: LLB, Yale Law School (1933)
Professor: Yale Law School (1933-37)
US Supreme Court Justice 4-Oct-1965 to 14-May-1969 (resigned)
Federated Department Stores Vice President
Member of the Board of Braniff
Arnold & Porter Co-Founder (1946)
Yale Law Journal Editor-in-Chief
American Bar Association
American Judicature Society Board of Trustees
Carnegie Hall Board of Directors
Kennedy Center
Order of the Coif
Phi Beta Kappa Society
English Ancestry Paternal
Risk Factors: Tuberculosis, Smoking
Author of books:
Concerning Dissent and Civil Disobedience (1968, law)
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