President George H.W. Bush's Birthday

Today is the 85th birthday of our 41st president, George Herbert Walker Bush. President Bush served from 1989 to 1993. He is best known for his role in bringing down General Noriega, as well as for sending troops to fight the Iraqis in Desert Storm. To learn more, click on these links:


White House: Biography of George H.W. Bush


George Herbert Walker Bush (American President: an Online Reference Resource)



George Bush Presidential Library and Museum




Sonnet Erin Brown
Head of Federal Documents
Reference & Instruction Librarian
Subject Specialist: Legal Research, Political Science
Earth & Environmental Sciences, Philosophy

U.S. Supreme Court: Associate Justice Clarence Thomas

Associate Justice Clarence Thomas was born in the Pin Point community of Georgia (near Savannah).  He received his A.B., cum laude, from Holy Cross College and his J.D. from Yale Law School.  President George H.W. Bush nominated him as an Associate Justice of the United States Supreme Court; he took his seat on October 23, 1991, replacing Associate Justice Thurgood Marshall (the first African-American to be appointed to the Supreme Court). 

For more information, check out the biographies of current Justices here.

Also, check out his biography on The Oyez Project here.

Sonnet Erin Brown
Head of Federal Documents
Reference & Instruction Librarian
Subject Specialist: Legal Research, Political Science
Earth & Environmental Sciences, Philosophy

U.S. Supreme Court: Associate Justice David Hackett Souter

Associate Justice David Hackett Souter is from Melrose, Massachusetts.  He received his A.B. from Harvard College.  He was also a Rhodes Scholar at Magdalen College, Oxford.  He would later receive an A.B. in Jurisprudene and an M.A. from Oxford.  He then earned an LL.B. from Harvard Law School.  President George H.W. Bush nominated him as an Associate Justice of the United States Supreme Court; he took his seat on October 9, 1990, replacing Associate Justice William J. Brennan.  He will be retiring this year; Judge Sonia Sotomayor was nominated to replace him, but she still awaits confirmation from Congress.

For more information, check out the biographies of current Justices here.

Also, check out his biography on The Oyez Project here.

Sonnet Erin Brown
Head of Federal Documents
Reference & Instruction Librarian
Subject Specialist: Legal Research, Political Science
Earth & Environmental Sciences, Philosophy