Creator:Merrick Garland

Merrick Garland  (1952–)
	Alternative names	Merrick Garland; Merrick Brian Garland; Merrick B. Garland; Judge Garland
	Description	American judge and lawyer American judge and Supreme Court justice nominee Graduated summa cum laude as valedictorian from Harvard College, and graduated magna cum laude from Harvard Law School Law clerk to Judge Henry J. Friendly of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit Law clerk to Justice William J. Brennan, Jr. of the Supreme Court of the United States Federal prosecutor in the U.S. Department of Justice, where he played a leading role in the investigation and prosecution of the Oklahoma City bombers. Chief judge of the United States Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit.
	Date of birth	13 November 1952
	Location of birth	Chicago
	Work period	1977 - present
	Work location	Washington, D.C.
	Authority file	: Q1922011 VIAF: 120565052 ISNI: 0000000078130893 LCCN: no2010064050 GND: 1224680995 WorldCat
	References	(March 19, 1997). "Proceedings and Debates of the 105th Congress, First Session; Washington, Wednesday, March 19, 1997". Congressional Record 143 (36): S2491. United States Senate. Retrieved on March 18, 2016. Obama, Barack (March 16, 2016). "Remarks by the President Announcing Judge Merrick Garland as his Nominee to the Supreme Court". The White House.

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Parameter		Description	Type	Status
option	1	Additional phrase to add to the creator's name (in current language) which clarifies their sometimes indirect role. Possible phrases are: "workshop of", "circle of", "school of", "studio of", "or follower", "or workshop", "and workshop", "attributed to", "after", "formerly attributed to", "follower of", "manner of", "namepiece", "near", "possibly", "probably", "presumably". Adding one of those keywords will add those phrases to the author's name in current language. Keyword "autocategorize" will add categories when creator template is transcluded in the home-category.	Line	optional

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Alternative names	Aliases, pseudonym (P742), birth name (P1477), courtesy name (P1782), art name (P1787)
Description	Other properties used by Creator template: To construct Description field: country of citizenship (P27), ethnic group (P172) → nationality sex or gender (P21) → gender occupation (P106) → occupation Other fields family name (P734), given name (P735) → sortkey image (P18) → image Commons category (P373) → homecat Commons Creator page (P1472) → linkback
Date of birth/death	date of birth (P569) or date of baptism (P1636)	date of death (P570) or date of burial or cremation (P4602)
Location of birth/death	place of birth (P19)	place of death (P20)
Work period	work period (start) (P2031), work period (end) (P2032), floruit (P1317)
Work location	work location (P937)

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