Associate justice antonin scalia biography
Associate justice antonin scalia biography
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Antonin Scalia
(1936-2016)
Who Was Antonin Scalia?
Antonin Scalia was a lawyer and an Associate Justice of the U.S. Supreme Court. He was a practicing lawyer in the 1960s, and then worked in public service in the 1970s with roles in President Richard Nixon’s general counsel and as the Assistant Attorney General.
In the 1980s he became a part of President Ronald Reagan’s Court of Appeals. In 1986, President Reagan nominated him as Associate Justice of the U.S. Supreme Court, serving in that capacity until his death on February 13, 2016.
Background, Education and Family Life
Born on March 11, 1936, in Trenton, New Jersey, Antonin Gregory Scalia was the only child of Salvadore Eugene and Catherine Panaro Scalia.
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His father emigrated from Sicily as a teenager and came through Ellis Island. Salvadore got a college education and became a professor of romance languages at Brooklyn College. Scalia's mother was a first-generation Italian American who worked as an elementary school t