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Retired Associate Justice Gerald Lewis was born in New Jersey in 1933 and graduated from Plainfield High School at the age of 16. He attended Tufts University, where he played football, wrestled, and played lacrosse. He graduated magna cum laude with a major in government in 1954. He then attended Harvard Law School and graduated in 1957. After graduating, he joined the Navy and was stationed in San Diego, where he worked as a JAG officer. He left the Navy in 1961 at the rank of lieutenant. He was invited to accompany a member of the Office of Naval Intelligence to watch a stakeout in the lobby of the U.S. Grant Hotel.