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Nomination Withdrawal, George H. Williams to be Chief Justice of the Supreme Court of the United States, 1874

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Nomination Withdrawal, George H. Williams to be Chief Justice of the Supreme Court of the United States, 1874
Following a Judiciary Committee investigation, President Ulysses S. Grant’s controversial nomination of George H. Williams to be chief justice was withdrawn.
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