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Show HARLAN JOINS THE MAJORITY Eldest Chief Justice, Who Hac Served His Country far Thirty-three Years, Succumbs to Grim Reaper. Washington. Associate Justice John M. Harlan of the supreme court of tha t'nlted States, often ac claimed the greatest constitutional authority of the day, once a consplc uous figure In national and Kentucky politics and long a leader In Presby. terlan church councils, died Saturday, aged 78 years. He has been 111 less than a week. Justice Harlan served on the supreme su-preme court thirty-three years, ten months and twenty-five days, and hail he lived until next Juno would have eclipsed the record of Justice Field, who served thirty-four years. bIx months and ten days, and Chief Jus- JOHN M. HARLAN. lice Marshall, who served thirty-four years, five months and five days. Justico Harlan wai born In Iloyle county, Ky., in 18CJ. Justice Harlan wus above all things an Independent. In court he was often an unflinching minority of one. He was simple In his tastes. He became a member of the supremo court without with-out a fortune and at his death he left a very small estate. |