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Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. Pages: 53. Chapters: Presidents of Whitman College, Whitman College alumni, Whitman College faculty, Walter Houser Brattain, Otto Harbach, Dirk Benedict, Steve McConnell, Torey Hayden, William O. Douglas, Jon-Henri Damski, Adam West, Ben Kerkvliet, Meda Chesney-Lind, Walt Minnick, Ryan Crocker, Ben Westlund, Gordon Wright, James Alger Fee, Derrike Cope, John Morrison, Stephen Zunes, W. Michael Gillette, Jules Boykoff, Anomie Belle, John Markoff, Paul Mozer, Sean Mann, Lance Norris, Stephen Cohn, Jack Fearey, Marcus Amerman, Dorothy Metcalf-Lindenburger, Tess Gallagher, Vladimir Rojansky, Bernard Berelson, Keiko Agena, Kathryn Shaw, Whitman National Debate Institute, Jack Rasmussen, Douglas Cole, John Moe, Elizabeth Vandiver, Gary O. Rollefson, Sharon Nelson, Tom Smith, David Maxwell, David R. Nygren, Stephen Beus, John W. Stanton, Pat Thibaudeau, Lucile Lomen, Jonathan Curiel, Sam Witt, Rick Stevenson, Ingrid Backstrom, Josh Emmons, Wallace R. Brode, Marlin Eller, Thomas Cronin, Hal Holmes, Robert Skotheim, James L. Robart, Shane Johnson. Excerpt: William Orville Douglas (October 16, 1898 - January 19, 1980) was an Associate Justice of the United States Supreme Court. With a term lasting 36 years and 209 days, he is the longest-serving justice in the history of the Supreme Court. In 1975, a TIME article called Douglas "the most doctrinaire and committed civil libertarian ever to sit on the court." He was replaced on the Court by John Paul Stevens, and the combination of the tenure of the two justices on the Court stretched 71 years, a seat held longer by two justices than any other. During that time, he also established the records for the most opinions written, the most dissents written, the most speeches given, and the most books authored by any member of the Supreme Court. None of his successors has surpassed these records. Douglas w...