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Antonin Scalia

1936 - 2016

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Antonin Gregory Scalia (March 11, 1936 – February 13, 2016) was an American jurist who served as an associate justice of the Supreme Court of the United States from 1986 until his death in 2016. He was described as the intellectual anchor for the originalist and textualist position in the U.S. Supreme Court's conservative wing. For catalyzing an originalist and textualist movement in American law, he has been described as one of the most influential jurists of the twentieth century, and one of the most important justices in the history of the Supreme Court. Scalia was posthumously awarded the Presidential Medal of Freedom in 2018, and the Antonin Scalia Law School at George Mason University was named in his honor. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Antonin Scalia is the 18th most popular judge, the 5,023rd most popular biography from United States (down from 4,514th in 2019) and the 7th most popular American Judge.

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Among JUDGES

Among judges, Antonin Scalia ranks 18 out of 53. Before him are Panagiotis Pikrammenos, John Marshall, Georg Konrad Morgen, Clarence Thomas, Earl Warren, and Elliott Belgrave. After him are Edward Coke, Thurgood Marshall, Sonia Sotomayor, Samuel Alito, Stephen Breyer, and Nasirul Mulk.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1936, Antonin Scalia ranks 274. Before him are Touria Chaoui, Moacir Claudino Pinto, Marion Chesney, Walter Lewin, Henck Arron, and Edward Feigenbaum. After him are Feliciano Rivilla, Toralf Engan, Jan Němec, Stanislav Govorukhin, Jan Tříska, and Anton Allemann. Among people deceased in 2016, Antonin Scalia ranks 233. Before him are Klim Churyumov, Chiyonofuji Mitsugu, Zubaida Tharwat, Manuel Velázquez, Peter Maxwell Davies, and Prince Dimitri Romanov. After him are Arnold Palmer, Roberto Perfumo, Óscar Humberto Mejía Víctores, Slobodan Santrač, Zoltán Kocsis, and Jan Němec.

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In United States

Among people born in United States, Antonin Scalia ranks 5,023 out of 20,380. Before him are Henry Russell (1904), Amy Madigan (1950), Burl Ives (1909), Jesse Eisenberg (1983), Charles Dvorak (1878), and Gene Barry (1919). After him are Julie Benz (1972), H.D. (1886), Lynn Cohen (1933), Ira Sprague Bowen (1898), Steve Jordan (1957), and Edwin Frederick O'Brien (1939).

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Among JUDGES In United States

Among judges born in United States, Antonin Scalia ranks 7. Before him are Ruth Bader Ginsburg (1933), Maryanne Trump Barry (1937), John Roberts (1955), John Marshall (1755), Clarence Thomas (1948), and Earl Warren (1891). After him are Thurgood Marshall (1908), Sonia Sotomayor (1954), Samuel Alito (1950), Stephen Breyer (1938), Walter Q. Gresham (1832), and David Souter (1939).

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