Henry Billings Brown Quotes

Henry Billings Brown was born in Lee, Massachusetts, USA. He was an associate justice of the Supreme Court of the United States from December 29, 1890 to May 28, 1906. An admiralty lawyer and U.S. District Judge in Detroit before ascending to the high court, Brown authored hundreds of opinions in his 31 years as a federal judge. He earned a Bachelor of Arts degree from Yale College in 1856. He attended a term of legal education at Yale Law School and another at Harvard Law School. He taught admiralty law classes at the University of Michigan Law School from 1860 to 1875, and medical jurisprudence at the Detroit Medical College from 1868 to 1871.