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Jun 08, 1917 Fort Collins, Colorado, United States Died on 15 Apr 2002 (aged 84)
Associate Justice of the U.S. Supreme Court, American football player
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About Byron White
- Byron Raymond "Whizzer" White (June 8, 1917 – April 15, 2002) was an American lawyer and professional football player who served as an Associate Justice of the Supreme Court of the United States from 1962 to 1993.
- Born and raised in Colorado, he played college football, basketball, and baseball for the University of Colorado, finishing as the runner up for the Heisman Trophy in 1937.
- He was selected in the first round of the 1938 NFL Draft by the Pittsburgh Steelers and led the National Football League in rushing yards in his rookie season.
- White was admitted to Yale Law School in 1939 and played for the Detroit Lions in the 1940 and 1941 seasons.
- During World War II, he served as an intelligence officer with the United States Navy in the Pacific.
- After the war, he graduated from Yale and clerked for Chief Justice Fred M.
- Vinson. White entered private practice in Denver, Colorado, working primarily as a transactional attorney.
- He served as the Colorado state chair of John F.
- Kennedy's 1960 presidential campaign and accepted appointment as the United States Deputy Attorney General in 1961.
- In 1962, President Kennedy successfully nominated White to the Supreme Court, making White the first Supreme Court Justice from Colorado.
- He retired in 1993 and was succeeded by Ruth Bader Ginsburg.
- White is the twelfth longest-serving justice in Supreme Court history. White viewed his own court decisions as based on the facts of each case rather than as representative of a specific legal philosophy.
- He wrote the majority opinion in cases including Coker v.
- Georgia, Washington v.
- Davis and Bowers v.
- Hardwick.
- He wrote dissenting opinions in notable cases such as Miranda v.
- Arizona, Immigration and Naturalization Service v.
- Chadha, NCAA v.
- Board of Regents of the University of Oklahoma, and Roe v.
- Wade.
