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Originally published May 1, 2009 at 2:14 AM | Page modified May 1, 2009 at 7:20 AM

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Biographical information on David Souter

NAME - David Hackett Souter.

NAME - David Hackett Souter.

AGE-BIRTH DATE-LOCATION - 69; Sept. 17, 1939; Melrose, Mass.

EDUCATION - Harvard College, Oxford University and Harvard Law School.

EXPERIENCE - Supreme Court justice, 1990-present; judge on 1st U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals, 1990; New Hampshire Supreme Court justice, 1983-90; New Hampshire Superior Court justice, 1978-83; New Hampshire attorney general, 1976-78; deputy attorney general 1971-76; assistant attorney general, 1968-71; associate at law firm of Orr and Reno in Concord, N.H., 1966-68.

FAMILY - Single. Only child of Joseph Souter, a banker who died in 1982, and Helen Souter, a homemaker who died in 1995.

HOBBIES - Hiking, mountain climbing, running and reading.

QUOTE - "When the term of court starts I undergo a sort of annual intellectual lobotomy and it lasts until the following summer when I sort of cram what I can into the summertime."

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