Stephen G. Breyer was born into a Jewish, Democratic, and politically involved family in California August 8th, 1938. His mother was a member of the San Francisco Democratic Party and for the League of Women Voters, and his father was a lawyer and legal counsel for the San Francisco Board of Education. He attended Lowell High School in San Francisco and later was accepted by both Harvard and Stanford. He decided to go to Stanford, and later won a Marshall Scholarship to attend Oxford University. There he studied economics. Later on he studied law at Harvard.
Supreme Court Justice Arthur Go…
