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Byron Raymond "Whizzer" White (June 8, 1917 – April 15, 2002) was an American lawyer, jurist, and professional football player who served as an associate justice of the Supreme Court of the United States from 1962 until 1993.
Byron R. White was an associate justice of the United States Supreme Court (1962–93). Before taking up the study of law in 1940, White achieved a national reputation as a quarterback and halfback on the University of Colorado football team, earning the nickname “Whizzer.”
Oct 16, 2021 · On October 16, 1962, Justice Byron R. White joined the Supreme Court as one of two appointments made by President John F. Kennedy. In 2012, Constitution Daily contributor Lyle Denniston wrote a retrospective about White's Supreme Court career, which we have reprinted here.
Byron Raymond White—a nondoctrinaire pragmatist—will be remembered primarily for his individualistic approach to law and secondarily for his early career as a professional athlete. Hailing from the small town of Fort Collins, Colorado, White was born on June 8, 1917 to Alpha Albert White and Maude Elizabeth Burger.
Apr 16, 2002 · Byron R. White, the football legend who became one of the longest serving justices of the United States Supreme Court, died yesterday in Denver.
Apr 15, 2002 · Byron R. White, the football legend who became one of the longest serving justices of the United States Supreme Court, died today in a Denver nursing home of complications of pneumonia.
Historical profiles documenting the personal background, plus nomination and confirmation dates of previous associate justices of the U.S. Supreme Court: Byron R. White.
Apr 1, 2002 · Justice Byron R. White's former law clerks remember him not as one of his generation's greatest football players, but as one of its sharpest legal minds.
Read about how U.S. Supreme Court Justice Byron White got to the Court, including his education, career, and confirmation process.
A hardline conservative, White struggled in his early years to identify with the more liberal court of Chief Justice Warren. White dissented in several leading decisions made by the court, often in opposition to what he believed to be judicial activism.
