Why was Marshall spelled instead of Martial?
THURGOOD MARSHALL?
In 1961, President John F. Kennedy appointed Marshall to United States Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit. Marshall retired during the administration of President George H. W. Bush, and was succeeded by Clarence Thomas.
Marshall once bluntly described his legal philosophy as this: "You do what you think is right and let the law catch up", a statement which his conservative detractors argued was a sign of his embracement of judicial activism.
In 1987, Marshall gave a controversial speech on the occasion of the bicentennial celebration of the Constitution of the United States.
Marshall stated:
"The government they devised was defective from the start, requiring several amendments, a civil war, and major social transformations to attain the system of constitutional government and its respect for the freedoms and individual rights, we hold as fundamental today."
Marshall died of heart failure at the National Naval Medical Center in Bethesda, Maryland, at 2:58 pm on January 24, 1993, at the age of 84.