title: Harry Blackmun
text: Harry Andrew Blackmun (November 12, 1908 – March 4, 1999) was an American lawyer and jurist who served as an Associate Justice of the Supreme Court of the United States from 1970 until 1994. Appointed by Republican President Richard Nixon, Blackmun ultimately became one of the most liberal justices on the Court. He is best known as the author of the Court's opinion in Roe v. Wade, which prohibits many state and federal restrictions on abortion.
  
  Blackmun studied at Harvard College, at Harvard Law School. Blackmun was never married. He had no children. Blackmun died on March 4, 1999 in Arlington County, Virginia from natural causes, aged 90.
  
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  Other websites
   
  
   Excerpt from Blackmun's Callins opinion, and Justice Scalia's response
   NPR series on Justice Blackmun's Files 
   Blackmun's Papers at the Library of Congress
   Transcript:  The Justice Harry A. Blackmun Oral History Project
   
  
  1908 births
  1999 deaths
  Deaths from natural causes
  Lawyers from Illinois
  American judges
  United States Supreme Court justices
  US Republican Party politicians
  Politicians from Illinois
  Writers from Illinois
  Politicians from Minnesota
  Writers from Minnesota
  Burials at Arlington National Cemetery