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The word search puzzle below uses the names of historical, political, and social leaders with Kentucky ties. Find and circle the answer words that run horizontally, vertically, and diagonally throughout the grid.
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Kentucky native, Louis Brandeis served as Associate Justice of the United States Supreme Court from 1916 to 1939. Nominated by then president, Woodrow Wilson, Brandeis was already well-known in the legal world for his monumental contributions to legal precedents surrounding an individual's "right to privacy". This stemmed from an article published in the Harvard Law Review in 1890, that he and his law partner, Samuel Warren had co-authored entitled The Right to Privacy. Prominent American jurist, Roscoe Pound said of it that Brandeis had added a new chapter to American law.
Nationally well-known by the time of his Supreme Court appointment, Brandeis would go on to become one of the best known US justices of all time in his fights for human rights and his guardianship of the public interest of the common people in opposing big business and public corruption.
Other US Supreme Court Justices from Kentucky, whose names are included in the puzzle above are John Marshall Harlan, Stanley Reed, and Fred Vinson.
John Marshall Harlan is remembered for his dissent in the infamous Plessy v. Ferguson case of 1896, which established the "separate but equal" doctrine in favor of segregation. Harlan's famous line, "Our constitution is color-blind, and neither knows nor tolerates classes among citizens," was a sentence in his solitary dissent.
Stanley Reed was nominated to his post on the US Supreme Court by President Franklin D. Roosevelt. Reed served on the high court from 1938 to 1957; his tenure overlapping with Justice Brandeis's for two years and with Chief Justice Vinson's, (see below) for several years.
Reed was considered a "moderate" in the majority of his opinions.
Fred M. Vinson was the 13th Chief Justice of the United States,serving from 1946-1953, after having been nominated by President Harry S Truman. Vinson was the quintessential public servant. He served in the US military as an Army soldier during World War I, followed by a tenure in the US House of Representatives from Kentucky's 9th and then 8th district; then as a judge in the US Court of Appeals; then as the Director of the Office of Economic Stabilization; and as the 53rd US Secretary of the Treasury; all prior to becoming Chief Justice.
To learn more about these and other Kentuckians who have served on the nation's highest court, visit the Supreme Court Historical Society, for much more information.
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