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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. By his retirement, he was its only sitting Democrat and the last-living member of the progressive Warren Court .
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Oct 16, 2021 · Justice Byron R. White served on the Supreme Court for 31 years, but now, more than a decade after his death, he remains something of an enigma.
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Byron White (1917–2002) was Colorado’s first-ever US Supreme Court justice, serving from 1962 to 1993, as well as a nationally known college athlete for the University of Colorado and a star pro football player.
Apr 15, 2024 · Byron R. White (born June 8, 1917, Fort Collins, Colorado, U.S.—died April 15, 2002, Denver) 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 ...
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Justice Byron White joined the U.S. Supreme Court on April 16, 1962, replacing Justice Charles Evans Whittaker. White was born on June 8, 1917 in northern Colorado. He attended the University of Colorado and graduated in 1938 as the class valedictorian. White then received a Rhodes Scholarship to attend the University of Oxford in the United ...
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. He was 84, and the only living former Supreme...
Apr 15, 2002 · 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.
