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George H. Brown Jr.
1939–
United States
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George H. Brown Jr. (born 1939) is a Tennessee lawyer who served as a justice of the Tennessee Supreme Court in 1980, and was the first black person to serve on that court. Born in Memphis, Tennessee, Brown received a B.S. from Florida A&M University in 1960, and a J.D. from the Howard University School of Law in 1967.
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