Byron R. White Biography

Byron R. White biography

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NAME: Byron R. White
OCCUPATION: Football Player, Lawyer, Supreme Court Justice, Government Official
BIRTH DATE: June 08, 1917
DEATH DATE: April 15, 2002
EDUCATION: University of Oxford, Yale Law School
PLACE OF BIRTH: Fort Collins, Colorado
PLACE OF DEATH: Denver, Colorado

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President John F. Kennedy appointed Byron R. White deputy U.S. attorney general in 1961. A year later White was appointed to the Supreme Court where he served until 1993.

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Byron R. White was born on June 8, 1917, in Fort Collins, Colorado. He played football with the Pittsburg Pirates and the Detroit Lions. He studied at the University of Oxford before studying law at Yale. In 1961, President John F. Kennedy named him deputy U.S. attorney general. One year later he was appointed to the Supreme Court where he voted moderate to conservative until he retired in 1993.