"Supreme Court Justice" Byron White Hand Signed Magazine Bio Todd Mueller COA

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Up for auction "Supreme Court Justice" Byron White Hand Signed Magazine Bio.
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Byron Raymond "Whizzer" White
(June 8, 1917 – April 15, 2002) was an
Associate Justice
of the
Supreme Court of the United States
from April 12, 1962 to June 28, 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 Pirates
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
, and
Roe v. Wade
.