DOUGLAS, WILLIAM ORVILLE
William Orville Douglas, a legal educator, NEW DEAL reformer, environmental advocate, and prolific author, was an outspoken and controversial associate justice on the U.S. Supreme Court during much of the twentieth century.
For over 36 years, under six presidents and five chief justices, Douglas’s opinions—including an unequaled 531 dissents—touched and shaped the momentous constitutional questions and crises of the Depression, WORLD WAR II,the
COLD WAR, the KOREAN WAR, the CIVIL RIGHTS
MOVEMENT, the VIETNAM WAR, the rise of the
