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Clarence Thomas: A Brief Biography
Clarence Thomas was born on June 23, 1948 in Pin Point, Georgia. He spent most of his childhood living with his grandfather and step-grandmother in Savannah, Georgia. When he was young, his grandfather wanted him to follow a religious career path and he transferred high schools in order to become a priest. He was also very involved in the civil rights movement as a young man. After Martin Luther King Jr. was assassinated, he left the south and attended Holy Cross College in Massachusetts where he studied English. After he graduated from Holy Cross, he went to study at Yale University Law School. He began as an attorney in Missouri where he then moved to Washington D.C. and was appointed a Supreme Court Justice by George H.W. Bush to replace
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