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3 unusual facts about Lewis Powell


Lewis Powell

Lewis F. Powell, Jr., Associate Justice of the Supreme Court of the United States

Live Oak, Florida

Lewis Powell, one of the conspirators to assassinate President Abraham Lincoln

Mt. Healthy City School District Board of Education v. Doyle

In his native Virginia, Justice Lewis Powell noted, school board members were "constitutional officers."


Port Royal, Virginia

One of his accomplices in the murder who was with him and captured at the Garrett farm, David Herold, was tried, convicted and hanged on July 7, 1865, along with Lewis Powell (alias Payne or Paine), George Atzerodt, and Mary Surratt.

Southwest Waterfront

Hubert Humphrey lived there while serving as U.S. Vice President, and Thurgood Marshall, Lewis Powell, and David Souter all had homes in Southwest during their tenures on the United States Supreme Court.


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