BY WALTER OPINDE  On this day July 1, 1991, the 41st U.S. President, G. H. W. Bush, nominated Thomas Clarence to fill the seat of Justice Marshall as the Second Black U.S. Supreme Court Justice. Consequently, Clarence Thomas was appointed the second African-American U.S. Supreme Court Justice, serving after the first Black- Justice Thurgood Marshall. […]

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