Louis Dembitz Brandeis was born to Jewish immigrant family on the 13th of November, 1856. The family who came from Bohemia (now a Czech Republic region) lived in Louisville, Kentucky. Louis was brought up in a secular home and attended Harvard Law School. 20-year-old Louis graduated with the highest grade average in the law school's history. On June 1, 1916 he was confirmed by the Senate by a vote of 47 to 22, to become one of the most famous and respected figures ever to serve on the high court.

Louis Dembitz Brandeis also became the first Jew in history to sit in the US Supreme Court. Scholars consider his opinions the "greatest defenses" of freedom of speech ever written by a a member of the Supreme Court.

Brandeis died from a heart attack on the 5th of October, 1941. He was 84 years old. His commitments to justice, education, and Judaism were commemorated several years later in the founding of Brandeis University.

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