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Robert Duncan, OH's 1st black justice, dead at 85

November 5, 2012 Kermit Comments Off

Robert Morton Duncan, the first black justice to serve on the Ohio Supreme Court, has died. He was 85.

Morton served on the high court from 1969, when he was appointed by Gov. James A. Rhodes, until 1971, when President Richard Nixon appointed him to the U.S. Court of Military Appeals. […]