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A resource for reliable information about significant people, places, events, and things in Minnesota history.
Future Supreme Court Justice William O. Douglas is born in Maine, Minnesota. Briefly a resident of the state, Douglas would move further west while he was an infant as his family sought a climate more accommodating to his nearly crippling polio.
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