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Born in Trenton, N.J.
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Graduates from Georgetown College with a bachelor of arts degree in history and was nominated valedictorian.
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Graduated magna cum laude from Harvard Law School.
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Becomes married to Maureen McCarthy.
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Scalia started off his legal career at the international law firm of Jones, Day, Cockley and Reavis in Cleveland, Ohio.
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President Richard Nixon appointed him with this job and one of his principal assignments was to formulate federal policy for the growth of cable television.
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The main goal of this agency was to improve the functioning of the federal bureaucracy.
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Carried out by President Gerald Ford, Scalia was confirmed by the Senate on August 22, 1984.
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Scalia was appainted by Richard Nixon to the position of: Assistant Attorney General for the Office of Legal Counsel.
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Scalia returned to teaching at the University of Chicago Law school and also became a visiting professor at the law schools of Georgetown and Stanford universities from 1980-1981.
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Scalia declined a seat on the Chicago-based United States Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit in early 1982. Later that year, Reagan offered Scalia a seat on the United States Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit, which Scalia accepted. He was confirmed by the US Senate on August 5, 1982, and was sworn in on August 17, 1982
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Nominated by Reagan to the Supreme Court. He was then confirmed 98–0 on September 17, 1986, creating the first Italian-American Justice.
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Scalia died in his sleep the morning of February 13, 2016 in Shafter, TX.