Editing Stephen Breyer (section)

==Early life and education==
Breyer was born on August 15, 1938, in San Francisco, California,<ref>{{Cite book |last=Urofsky |first=Melvin I. |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=4V12AwAAQBAJ&pg=PA74 |title=Biographical Encyclopedia of the Supreme Court: The Lives and Legal Philosophies of the Justices |date=May 25, 2006 |publisher=CQ Press |isbn=9781452267289 |location=Washington, DC |page=74 |access-date=November 8, 2021 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200903052411/https://books.google.com/books?id=4V12AwAAQBAJ |archive-date=September 3, 2020 |url-status=live}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web |last=Egelko |first=Bob |date=June 29, 2022 |title='A justice of great intellect': S.F.-born Justice Breyer steps down from Supreme Court |url=https://www.sfchronicle.com/bayarea/article/A-justice-of-great-intellect-S-F-born-17275261.php |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220819134105/https://www.sfchronicle.com/bayarea/article/A-justice-of-great-intellect-S-F-born-17275261.php |archive-date=August 19, 2022 |access-date=June 27, 2024 |website=sfchronicle.com}}</ref> to Anne A. (''née'' Roberts) and Irving Gerald Breyer.<ref>{{Cite news |last=Walsh |first=Mark |date=April 11, 2018 |title=For One Supreme Court Justice, a Personal Connection to School Law |url=https://www.edweek.org/policy-politics/for-one-supreme-court-justice-a-personal-connection-to-school-law/2018/04 |access-date=January 26, 2022 |work=Education Week |language=en |issn=0277-4232}}</ref> Breyer's paternal great-grandfather emigrated from Romania to the United States, settling in Cleveland, Ohio, where Breyer's grandfather was born.<ref name="bookref1">{{Cite book |last1=Slater |first1=Elinor |title=Great Jewish Men |last2=Slater |first2=Robert |date=January 1996 |publisher=Jonathan David Publishers |isbn=9780824603816 |page=73}}</ref> Breyer was raised in a [[Middle class|middle-class]] [[Jews|Jewish]] family. His father was a lawyer who served as legal counsel to the [[San Francisco Board of Education]].<ref>{{Cite web |title=Stephen G. Breyer |url=https://www.oyez.org/justices/stephen_g_breyer/ |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20070321212656/https://www.oyez.org/justices/stephen_g_breyer/ |archive-date=March 21, 2007 |access-date=March 21, 2007 |publisher=Oyez}}</ref> Breyer and his younger brother [[Charles R. Breyer]], who later became a [[United States federal judge|federal district judge]], were active in the [[Boy Scouts of America]] and achieved the [[Eagle Scout (Boy Scouts of America)|Eagle Scout]] rank.<ref name="honor">{{Cite book |last=Townley |first=Alvin |url=http://www.thomasdunnebooks.com/TD_TitleDetail.aspx?ISBN=0312366531 |title=Legacy of Honor: The Values and Influence of America's Eagle Scouts |publisher=St. Martin's Press |year=2007 |isbn=978-0-312-36653-7 |location=New York |pages=56–59 |access-date=December 29, 2006 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20061219180428/http://www.thomasdunnebooks.com/TD_TitleDetail.aspx?ISBN=0312366531 |archive-date=December 19, 2006 |url-status=live |orig-year=December 26, 2006}}</ref><ref name="honor2">{{Cite web |last=Ray |first=Mark |year=2007 |title=What It Means to Be an Eagle Scout |url=http://www.scoutingmagazine.org/issues/0701/a-what.html |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20181113011825/https://scoutingmagazine.org/issues/0701/a-what.html |archive-date=November 13, 2018 |access-date=January 5, 2007 |website=[[Scouting (magazine)|Scouting]] |publisher=Boy Scouts of America}}</ref> Breyer attended [[Lowell High School (San Francisco)|Lowell High School]], where he was a member of the [[Lowell Forensic Society]] and [[debate]]d regularly in high school tournaments, including against future California governor [[Jerry Brown]] and future Harvard Law School professor [[Laurence Tribe]].<ref name="Oyez Bio">{{Cite web |title=Oyez Bio |url=https://www.oyez.org/justices/stephen_g_breyer/ |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20070321212656/https://www.oyez.org/justices/stephen_g_breyer/ |archive-date=March 21, 2007 |access-date=March 21, 2007}} (For Brown; need cite for Tribe)</ref>

After graduating from high school in 1955, Breyer studied [[philosophy]] at [[Stanford University]]. He graduated in 1959 with a [[Bachelor of Arts]] degree with highest honors and membership in [[Phi Beta Kappa]].<ref name="toobin" /> Breyer was awarded a [[Marshall Scholarship]], which he used to study [[philosophy, politics, and economics]] at [[Magdalen College, Oxford]], receiving a [[B. A.|B.A.]] with [[British undergraduate degree classification#Degree classification|first-class honors]] in 1961.<ref>{{Cite book |url=https://www.gpo.gov/fdsys/pkg/GPO-CHRG-BREYER/pdf/GPO-CHRG-BREYER.pdf |title=Serial No. J-103-64 |publisher=U.S. Government Printing Office |year=1995 |isbn=01-6-046946-5 |location=Washington, DC |pages=24 |access-date=April 5, 2018 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20181203225551/https://www.gpo.gov/fdsys/pkg/GPO-CHRG-BREYER/pdf/GPO-CHRG-BREYER.pdf |archive-date=December 3, 2018 |url-status=live}}</ref> He then returned to the United States to attend [[Harvard Law School]], where he was an articles editor of the ''[[Harvard Law Review]]'' and graduated in 1964 with a [[Bachelor of Laws]] degree, ''[[Latin honors#North America|magna cum laude]]''.<ref>{{Cite web |date=October 12, 2006 |title=Inaugural D.C. French Festival launches sans the Freedom Fries |url=http://www.washingtonlife.com/issues/holiday-2006/pollywood/ |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20080830045653/http://www.washingtonlife.com/issues/holiday-2006/pollywood/ |archive-date=August 30, 2008 |access-date=August 30, 2010 |website=Washington Life Magazine}}</ref>

Breyer spent eight years in the [[United States Army Reserve]] during the [[Vietnam War]], including six months on active duty in the [[Military Intelligence Corps (United States Army)|Army Strategic Intelligence]]. He reached the rank of [[corporal]] and was [[Military discharge|honorably discharged]] in 1965.<ref>{{Cite web |title=Senate Judiciary Committee Initial Questionnaire (Supreme Court) |url=https://www.govinfo.gov/content/pkg/GPO-CHRG-BREYER/pdf/GPO-CHRG-BREYER-4-3-4-1.pdf |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20201209083410/https://www.govinfo.gov/content/pkg/GPO-CHRG-BREYER/pdf/GPO-CHRG-BREYER-4-3-4-1.pdf |archive-date=December 9, 2020 |access-date=August 24, 2020 |publisher=United States Senate Judiciary Committee |location=Washington, DC}}</ref>

In 1967, Breyer married Joanna Freda Hare, a [[psychologist]] and member of the [[British nobility|British aristocracy]], younger daughter of [[John Hare, 1st Viscount Blakenham]] and granddaughter of [[Richard Hare, 4th Earl of Listowel]]. They have three adult children: Chloe, an [[Episcopal Church in the United States of America|Episcopal]] priest; Nell; and Michael.<ref name="Supreme Court Bio">[{{SCOTUS URL|about/biographies.aspx}} The Justices of the Supreme Court]. Retrieved April 6, 2012</ref>