Clarence Thomas was born in Pin Point, Georgia on June 23, 1948. Thomas lived in a one room shack with dirt floors and no plumbing. At the age of two his father abandoned the family. Clarence has two siblings, an older sister named Emma Mae and a younger brother named Myers Lee. Due to financial issues Clarence and his brother, Myers, were sent to live with their grandparents in Savannah, Georgia. Clarence was seven when he started living with his grandparents.
During the time of living with his grandparents, he was sent a Catholic school run by nuns. In the year of 1964 Myers Anderson withdrew him from an all- black religious school, and placed him in an all-white Catholic boarding school in Savannah. Through all the schools he attended, he was a good student, with high grades even with the racist remarks from other students. After graduation of the catholic boarding school in 1967, he was sent to a religious education school in Northwestern, Missouri. Never finishing school in Northwestern, Missouri, to the fact of Martin Luther King Jr death, and ending his career to become a priest. After leaving his dream to become a priest behind, he attended college is Worcester, Massachusetts and graduated in 1971. While at college is Worchester he was part of the track team, and help to found the Black Student Union at Holy Cross. During his last year in Worcester he married Kathy Ambush and had a son with her which they named Jamal. Following the graduation he was admitted to Yale law school. Graduated from Yale in 1974. Clarence first job in law was a spot on the staff of Missouri’s republican attorney general, John Danforth. The year of 1979 he moved to Washington D.C. and became a legislative assistant to Danforth on everything but Civil Right issues. In 1981 Clarence became the assistant secretary for Civil Rights in the United States Department of Education. While in this position, Clarence and Kathy had a divorce, and three year after the divorce, Clarence married Virginia Lamp. In 1990 President George bush appointed Clarence circuit of the United States Court of Appeals, a common stepping-stone to the Supreme Court. After only one year in the Court of Appeals, President Bush nominated Clarence to become the new Supreme Court Justice once Thurgood Marshall retired.
Once getting the job of Supreme Court Justice, at the age of 43, he has to testify that he had never sexually harassed Anita Hill, a former assistant to Clarence a number years earlier. The case showed that there was not enough evidence to prove Clarence Thomas of any wrongdoing. Clarence Thomas and Virginia Lamp adopted Clarence’s grandnephew, Mark, in 1997. Clarence Thomas is currently the Supreme Court Justice for the United States and is the second African American, after Thurgood Marshall, to be part of the Supreme Court.
Work Cited Clarence Thomas
"Clarence Thomas Biography." Encyclopedia of World Biography. N.p., n.d. Web. 5 Feb. 2013. Thursday, February 14, 2013
Clearence Thomas
Clarence Thomas was born in Pin Point, Georgia on June 23, 1948. Thomas lived in a one room shack with dirt floors and no plumbing. At the age of two his father abandoned the family. Clarence has two siblings, an older sister named Emma Mae and a younger brother named Myers Lee. Due to financial issues Clarence and his brother, Myers, were sent to live with their grandparents in Savannah, Georgia. Clarence was seven when he started living with his grandparents.
During the time of living with his grandparents, he was sent a Catholic school run by nuns. In the year of 1964 Myers Anderson withdrew him from an all- black religious school, and placed him in an all-white Catholic boarding school in Savannah. Through all the schools he attended, he was a good student, with high grades even with the racist remarks from other students. After graduation of the catholic boarding school in 1967, he was sent to a religious education school in Northwestern, Missouri. Never finishing school in Northwestern, Missouri, to the fact of Martin Luther King Jr death, and ending his career to become a priest. After leaving his dream to become a priest behind, he attended college is Worcester, Massachusetts and graduated in 1971. While at college is Worchester he was part of the track team, and help to found the Black Student Union at Holy Cross. During his last year in Worcester he married Kathy Ambush and had a son with her which they named Jamal. Following the graduation he was admitted to Yale law school. Graduated from Yale in 1974. Clarence first job in law was a spot on the staff of Missouri’s republican attorney general, John Danforth. The year of 1979 he moved to Washington D.C. and became a legislative assistant to Danforth on everything but Civil Right issues. In 1981 Clarence became the assistant secretary for Civil Rights in the United States Department of Education. While in this position, Clarence and Kathy had a divorce, and three year after the divorce, Clarence married Virginia Lamp. In 1990 President George bush appointed Clarence circuit of the United States Court of Appeals, a common stepping-stone to the Supreme Court. After only one year in the Court of Appeals, President Bush nominated Clarence to become the new Supreme Court Justice once Thurgood Marshall retired.
Once getting the job of Supreme Court Justice, at the age of 43, he has to testify that he had never sexually harassed Anita Hill, a former assistant to Clarence a number years earlier. The case showed that there was not enough evidence to prove Clarence Thomas of any wrongdoing. Clarence Thomas and Virginia Lamp adopted Clarence’s grandnephew, Mark, in 1997. Clarence Thomas is currently the Supreme Court Justice for the United States and is the second African American, after Thurgood Marshall, to be part of the Supreme Court.
Work Cited Clarence Thomas
"Clarence Thomas Biography." Encyclopedia of World Biography. N.p., n.d. Web. 5 Feb. 2013. 
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