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	The religion of Clarence Thomas, Supreme Court Justice
		Clarence Thomas was also raised by a Seventh-day Adventist grandmother and for many years attended the Seventh-day Adventist Church.
		At the time Justice Clarence Thomas was confirmed in 1991, he said that despite having been raised Catholic and having spent several years in a seminary, he was not a practicing Catholic.
		Thomas was born to a Baptist family near Savannah, Ga., but attended Catholic schools, joined the church and began studies for the priesthood.
	www.adherents.com /people/pt/Clarence_Thomas.html (1456 words)

	justiceshp.htm
		CLARENCE THOMAS was born June 23, 1948, in Pin Point, Georgia, an enclave of 500 inhabitants south of Savannah on the Moon River.
		Clarence’s father abandoned the family when he was two and his mother was pregnant with her third child.
		Thomas was the lone dissenter in the vote, preferring, as he later explained, to "profit from the experience by learning to associate [with] and understand the white majority." Thomas gave in, but brought his white roommate from the previous year to live with him.
	www.supremecourthistory.org /myweb/justice/thomas.htm (1826 words)

	Clarence Thomas - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Thomas was the youngest of the justices with whom he served from the time of his appointment to the confirmation of Chief Justice John G. Roberts, Jr.
		Thomas was confirmed by the Senate with a 52-48 vote on October 15, 1991, making it the closest confirmation vote for a Justice in the 20th century.
		Thomas comes from the Gullah/Geechee cultural region of coastal Georgia and is a member of this distinct African American ethnic group; he grew up speaking the Geechee language, which is a hybrid of English and various West African languages.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Clarence_Thomas (2861 words)

	New Georgia Encyclopedia: Clarence Thomas (b. 1948)
		Thomas was sworn in as an associate justice of the U.S. Supreme Court in 1991.
		Clarence Thomas was born on June 23, 1948, in Pin Point, a small, economically depressed community built on the grounds of a former slave plantation south of Savannah.
		On October 23 Clarence Thomas was sworn in as an associate justice of the Supreme Court.
	www.georgiaencyclopedia.org /nge/Article.jsp?id=h-2840 (1337 words)

	Boston.com / News / Nation / Washington / Biographer sees Thomas as chief justice (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
		Clarence Thomas has been interviewed by White House lawyers as a possible choice to be the next chief justice of the United States, says the author of a new biography.
		Thomas is friendly and outgoing in person, though he almost never says a word during the court's oral arguments and is considered among the most private of the nine justices, Foskett said.
		Thomas is the youngest of the justices at 56 and could remain on the court for decades.
	www.boston.com /news/nation/washington/articles/2004/08/06/biographer_sees_thomas_as_chief_justice (713 words)

	Clarence Thomas - Search Results - MSN Encarta
		Thomas, Clarence, born in 1948, American jurist, associate justice of the U.S. Supreme Court.
		Justices of the Supreme Court are appointed by the president and must be confirmed by a majority vote in the Senate.
		This article chronicles the reactions of political leaders after the Senate voted to confirm Clarence Thomas as Justice on the United States...
	encarta.msn.com /Clarence_Thomas.html (131 words)

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		Associate Justice Clarence Thomas was named the eighth Chairman of the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission by President Ronald Reagan on May 6, 1982 and served as Chairman of the EEOC until March 8, 1990, making him the longest serving Chairman of the agency.
		Thomas sued an automaker for workplace discrimination and in 1983, forced the automaker to agree to a $42.5 million dollar settlement, one of the largest settlements in EEOC history.
		In March, 1990, Clarence Thomas was appointed by President Bush as a U.S. Court of Appeals Judge for the District of Columbia.
	www.eeoc.gov /abouteeoc/35th/bios/clarencethomas.html (296 words)

	Online NewsHour: Supreme Court Watch \| Justice Thomas \| PBS (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
		Thomas was born in 1948 in the poverty-stricken Pin Point community of Georgia.
		Thomas caught the attention of the Reagan administration in 1981 and was offered a position as assistant secretary for civil rights in the Department of Education.
		Thomas faced a difficult confirmation hearing from a Democratic-led Senate Judiciary Committee and also left many liberal organizations torn over whether to support the important nomination of an African American who was also such a conservative thinker.
	www.pbs.org /newshour/bb/law/supreme_court/judge_thomas.html (615 words)

	Clarence Thomas Biography \| Encyclopedia of World Biography
		Clarence Thomas was born in Pin Point, Georgia, a tiny, coastal hamlet town outside of Savannah, on June 23, 1948.
		Thomas himself remarked during the course of the televised hearings that the process had been a harrowing personal ordeal for him and his wife.
		Thomas' admirers were praising him for staunchly adhering to the original intent in the interpretation of the U.S. Constitution.
	www.bookrags.com /biography/clarence-thomas (1998 words)

	Clarence Thomas
		Clarence Thomas was born in Savannah, Georgia, on June 23, 1948.
		Clarence Thomas was raised as a Roman Catholic, and his grandfather urged him to become a priest.
		Thomas took the extraordinary step of testifying again before the Committee, denied sexually harassing Hill and declared he was the subject of a "high-tech lynching." The debate about the Thomas nomination polarized both Washington and much of the country.
	www.michaelariens.com /ConLaw/justices/thomas.htm (642 words)

	Legal Affairs Debate Club - Should Clarence Thomas be Chief Justice?
		Clarence Thomas' critics dissected him as a nominee to the Supreme Court and have lambasted him as a judge, most recently for his dismissal of legal precedents.
		Thomas' defenders rebuke the critiques and argue that he actually has a sophisticated and nuanced view of the law that the country could use more of.
		For Thomas treating people the same regardless of the color of their skin is such a principle, and I think that one can make a powerful argument from natural law that Thomas gets that one right.
	www.legalaffairs.org /webexclusive/debateclub_Thomas0105.msp (4462 words)

	'My Grandfather's Son' by Clarence Thomas - BOOK REVIEW - Los Angeles Times - calendarlive.com (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
		CLARENCE THOMAS, the most conservative justice on a distinctly conservative U.S. Supreme Court, may well be the nation's most polarizing legal figure, and so it is only fitting that he has penned a polarizing memoir.
		Thomas is refreshingly candid about the depths of his suffering, and one comes away with a deep sadness about our broken politics and the ferocious disincentives for anyone to seek high government appointment.
		Thomas cops to none of this except to note briefly that, from "immaturity," he might have joined in a few discussions of pornography at Yale, when the movie "Deep Throat" and its ilk were mainstream cultural phenomena.
	www.calendarlive.com /tv/radio/cl-et-book1oct01,0,2041754.story (1194 words)

	Clarence Thomas - MSN Encarta
		He was appointed to the U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia in 1989, and nominated by President George Bush to the Supreme Court in July 1991, replacing the retiring Justice Thurgood Marshall.
		Thomas's already controversial confirmation hearings were jarred by allegations of sexual harassment brought against Thomas by Anita Hill, a law professor who had worked for him in two federal agencies during the 1980s.
		Adamantly rejecting Hill's accounts of his alleged misconduct, Thomas described the nationally televised proceedings as a “high-tech lynching” engineered by liberal opponents.
	encarta.msn.com /encyclopedia_761558105/Clarence_Thomas.html (221 words)

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		Justice Clarence Thomas (born June 23, 1948) is an American jurist and has been an Associate Justice of the Supreme Court of the United States since 1991.
		Thomas was the youngest of the justices with whom he served from the time of his appointment to the confirmation of Chief Justice John G. Roberts, Jr.
		Clarence Thomas was appointed to the Supreme Court by President George H.W. Bush on October 23, 1991.
	www.lycos.com /info/clarence-thomas.html (617 words)

	George Bush Presidential Library and Museum (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
		Clarence Thomas was my first appointee to the U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia, where he served for over a year.
		So, Clarence Thomas, seasoned now by more experience on the bench, fits my description of the best man at the right time, or the best person at the right time because women were considered as well.
		Because I don’t want to get Clarence Thomas, on the eve of his hearings, caught up in a lot of domestic questions of one kind or another, including this one which I’ll be glad to respond to.
	bushlibrary.tamu.edu /research/papers/1991/91070100.htm (7158 words)

	First Principles: The Jurisprudence of Clarence Thomas [Book Review] (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
		The "unusually vitriolic" assessments of Clarence Thomas before and after his appointment to the Supreme Court, Gerber suggests, were sparked by his conservative credentials as a fl man of influence.
		Because Thomas did not mouth the conventional platitudes and policies of the civil rights establishment, he was branded a traitor and worse.
		Justice Thomas would agree with Federalist No. 78, which states that while "the courts of justice are to be considered as the bulwarks of a limited constitution against legislative en croach ments," it is the limited constitu tion itself that provides the best security against tyranny.
	www.firstthings.com /ftissues/ft9910/reviews/morel.html (1674 words)

	Clarence Thomas Biography from Who2.com
		Clarence Thomas is the conservative African American United States Supreme Court justice who was thrust into the limelight in his 1991 confirmation proceedings, during which he was accused of sexual harassment.
		Thomas caught the eye of the administration of President Ronald Reagan and ended up as the director of the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) from 1982 until he was appointed in 1990 by President George Bush to the U.S. Court of Appeals.
		In the end, Thomas was confirmed by the Senate 52-48 and became the second African American to sit on the Supreme Court.
	www.who2.com /clarencethomas.html (375 words)

	Job of Clarence Thomas's Wife Raises Conflict-of-Interest Questions
		WASHINGTON, Dec. 11 — The wife of Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas said today that she was working at a conservative research group gathering résumés for appointments in a possible Bush administration but that she saw no conflict between her job and her husband's deliberations on a case that could decide the presidency.
		Thomas said tonight that her recruitment efforts were bipartisan and not on behalf of the Bush campaign.
		Thomas acknowledged, however, that her search was likely to generate more interest among Republicans, because of the foundation's conservative orientation.
	www.commondreams.org /headlines/121200-02.htm (784 words)

	Highbeam Encyclopedia - Search Results for Clarence Thomas
		Supreme discomfort: the divided soul of Clarence Thomas.
		Supreme Discomfort; More than a decade after his bitter confirmation battle, African Americans are still judging Clarence Thomas guilty.
		Clarence Thomas was born June 23, 1948m in Pinpoint...
	www.encyclopedia.com /SearchResults.aspx?Q=Clarence+Thomas&StartAt=11 (1069 words)

	The Clarence Thomas I Know
		Though Thomas was not born to a family of magnates, his course in life was no less fortuitous than was Marshall’s.
		Thomas went on to cap his experience by heading major federal departments or agencies (EEOC) for nearly eight years before being named to the Circuit Court of Appeals.
		Judge Clarence Thomas, whose confidence in the Constitution is no less emphatic, follows in the tradition of Marshall to bring great learning to the defense of the heritage of freedom.
	www.msu.edu /~allenwi/essays_and_misc/Clarence_Thomas_I_know.htm (698 words)

	Say It Plain - American RadioWorks
		Thomas is a political conservative and his 1991 nomination to the Court by President George H. Bush outraged many civil rights leaders, liberals, and African Americans.
		Thomas's Senate confirmation hearings were further roiled by law professor Anita Hill's accusation that Thomas sexually harassed her when she worked for him at the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) in the 1980s.
		Thomas was one of three children born in a dirt-floor house in Pin Point, Georgia, a tiny coastal community named for the plantation that once stood there.
	americanradioworks.publicradio.org /features/sayitplain/cthomas.html (5312 words)

	Clarence Thomas at opensource encyclopedia (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
		Clarence Thomas (born June 23, 1948) is an Associate Justice of the Supreme Court of the United States.
		When questioned about the allegations, Thomas famously called the hearings "a high-tech lynching for uppity Blacks." In the end, the Committee did not find sufficient evidence to corroborate Anita Hill's claim, and Thomas was confirmed by the Senate with a 52-48 vote on October 15, 1991.
		Thomas said that the beating, which left Hudson with loosened teeth, facial bruises, and a cracked dental plate, did not cause sufficient harm to meet the constitutional standard.
	www.wiki.tatet.com /Clarence_Thomas.html (1409 words)

	Mrs. Clarence Thomas: President Bush Confirms Mrs. Clarence Thomas as Secretary of the Posterior - WHITEHOUSE.ORG
		Clarence Thomas to the position of Secretary of the Posterior.
		Thomas will restore much-needed dignity to the long-beleaguered Department of the Posterior - achieving her objectives not only through nepotism and collaboration, but also with the aid of her incredibly life-like and inviting red vinyl mouth orifice, which comes fully equipped with a soft, bio-like tongue and flavorsome faux saliva solution.
		Thomas may be mute, her husband assures me that she is looking forward to forging deep and intense relationships with any and all male citizens interested in optimizing the enjoyment of the all-too-often neglected posterior - especially if they are willing to be videotaped in the process.
	www.whitehouse.org /news/2001/122101.asp (336 words)

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