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Charles Evans Whittaker
Charles Evans Whittaker
In office
March 25, 1957 – March 31, 1962
Nominated by Dwight Eisenhower
Preceded by Stanley Forman Reed
Succeeded by Byron White
Born February 22, 1901(1901-02-22)
Troy, Kansas
Died November 26, 1973 (aged 72)
Kansas City, Missouri

Charles Evans Whittaker (February 22, 1901–November 26, 1973) was an Associate Justice of the United States Supreme Court from 1957 to 1962. Associate Justices of the Supreme Court of the United States are the members of the Supreme Court of the United States other than the Chief Justice of the United States Events 1199 - Richard I is wounded by a crossbow bolt while fighting France which leads to his death on April 6. Year 1957 ( MCMLVII) was a Common year starting on Tuesday (link displays the 1957 Gregorian calendar) Events 307 - After divorcing his wife Minervina, Constantine marries Fausta, the daughter of the retired Roman Emperor Year 1962 ( MCMLXII) was a Common year starting on Monday (the link is to a full 1962 calendar of the Gregorian calendar. Dwight David "Ike" Eisenhower (October 14 1890 – March 28 1969 was President of the United States from 1953 until 1961 and a five-star general For the Indian newspaper editor and British politician see Stanley Reed. Byron Raymond White ( June 8, 1917 &ndash April 15, 2002) won fame both as a football Running back and as an associate justice of Events 1495 - King Charles VIII of France enters Naples to claim the city's throne Year 1901 ( MCMI) was a Common year starting on Tuesday (link will display calendar of the Gregorian calendar (or a Common year starting Kansas ( is a Midwestern state in the central region of the United States of America, an area often referred to as the American " Events 43 BC - The Second Triumvirate alliance of Gaius Julius Caesar Octavianus ("Octavian" later "Caesar Augustus" Year 1973 ( MCMLXXIII) was a Common year starting on Monday (link will display full calendar of the 1973 Gregorian calendar. Kansas City Missouri only Items for the metro area Kansas City Kansas or North Kansas City MO should go on their respective pages Missouri ( or) is a state in the Midwestern region of the United States bordered by Iowa, Illinois, Kentucky, Tennessee Events 1495 - King Charles VIII of France enters Naples to claim the city's throne Year 1901 ( MCMI) was a Common year starting on Tuesday (link will display calendar of the Gregorian calendar (or a Common year starting Events 43 BC - The Second Triumvirate alliance of Gaius Julius Caesar Octavianus ("Octavian" later "Caesar Augustus" Year 1973 ( MCMLXXIII) was a Common year starting on Monday (link will display full calendar of the 1973 Gregorian calendar. Associate Justices of the Supreme Court of the United States are the members of the Supreme Court of the United States other than the Chief Justice of the United States Year 1957 ( MCMLVII) was a Common year starting on Tuesday (link displays the 1957 Gregorian calendar) Year 1962 ( MCMLXII) was a Common year starting on Monday (the link is to a full 1962 calendar of the Gregorian calendar.

Whittaker was born on a farm near Troy, Kansas, and attended school until he dropped out in the ninth grade. Troy is a city in Doniphan County, Kansas, United States. The population was 1054 at the 2000 census. He spent the next two years hunting, trapping and farming, but developed an interest in law by reading newspaper articles about criminal trials. He applied to the Kansas City School of Law (currently the University of Missouri–Kansas City School of Law) and gained admission with the condition that he first acquire a high school education. The University of Missouri–Kansas City (often referred to as UMKC) is an institution of higher learning located in Kansas City, Missouri, USA He spent two years working, and taking high school courses from a private tutor before enrolling. While he was a student at the school, from 1922-1924, Harry S. Truman was a classmate of his. Year 1922 ( MCMXXII) was a Common year starting on Sunday of the Gregorian calendar. Year 1924 ( MCMXXIV) was a Leap year starting on Tuesday (link will display the full calendar of the Gregorian calendar. He received his law degree in 1924. Year 1924 ( MCMXXIV) was a Leap year starting on Tuesday (link will display the full calendar of the Gregorian calendar.

Whittaker joined a law firm in Kansas City, Missouri and built up a practice in corporate law. Kansas City Missouri only Items for the metro area Kansas City Kansas or North Kansas City MO should go on their respective pages Corporate law (also "company" or "corporations" law is the Law of the most dominant kind of business enterprise in the modern world He had close ties to the Republican party. This led to his first appointment as a judge on the U.S. District Court for the Western District of Missouri on July 8, 1954. The United States District Court for the Western District of Missouri is the federal judicial district encompassing 66 counties in the western Events 939 - The Major Occultation or Ghaybat el-Kubra of Muhammad al-Mahdi 1099 - First Crusade: 15000 Year 1954 ( MCMLIV) was a Common year starting on Friday (link will display full 1954 Gregorian calendar) He then was nominated to the Eight Circuit Court of Appeals on June 5, 1956. The United States Court of Appeals for the Eighth Circuit is a federal court with Appellate jurisdiction over the district courts in the following Events 70 - Titus and his Roman Legions breach the middle wall of Jerusalem in the Siege of Jerusalem Year 1956 ( MCMLVI) was a Leap year starting on Sunday (link will display full calendar of the Gregorian calendar. He developed a good reputation as a judge and less than a year later he was nominated Associate Justice of the Supreme Court by President Dwight Eisenhower, taking the oath on March 25, 1957. Dwight David "Ike" Eisenhower (October 14 1890 – March 28 1969 was President of the United States from 1953 until 1961 and a five-star general Events 1199 - Richard I is wounded by a crossbow bolt while fighting France which leads to his death on April 6. Year 1957 ( MCMLVII) was a Common year starting on Tuesday (link displays the 1957 Gregorian calendar) Whittaker thus became the first person to serve as a judge of a United States District Court, a United States Court of Appeals, and then the Supreme Court. The United States district courts are the general Trial courts of the United States federal court system. The United States courts of appeals (or circuit courts) are the intermediate appellate courts The Supreme Court of the United States is the highest judicial body in the United States and leads the federal judiciary. (Justice Samuel Blatchford also served at all three levels of the federal judiciary, but the court system was configured slightly differently at that time. For the university president and grandfather of Samuel Blatchford see Rev )

On the closely divided Supreme Court, Whittaker was a swing vote. He failed to develop a consistent judicial philosophy, however, and reportedly felt himself not as qualified as some of the other members of the court. After agonizing deeply for months over his vote in Baker v. Carr, an important reapportionment case, Whittaker suffered a nervous breakdown in the spring of 1962. Baker v Carr, 369 US 186 (1962 was a landmark United States Supreme Court case that retreated from the Court's Political question Apportionment is the process of allocating political power among a set of principles (or defined constituencies Mental breakdown (also known as nervous breakdown or snapping) is a non-medical term used to describe a sudden acute attack of Mental illness such as At the behest of Chief Justice Earl Warren, Whittaker retired from the Court effective March 31, 1962, citing exhaustion from the workload. Earl Warren ( March 19, 1891 July 9, 1974) was the 14th Chief Justice of the United States and the only person ever elected thrice Thereafter, Whittaker asked Warren to designate him to serve on temporary assignments as a judge of lower federal courts from time to time, but Warren consistently declined.

Effective September 30, 1965, Whittaker resigned his position as a retired Justice in order to became chief counsel to General Motors. General Motors Corporation ( GM) ( is a multinational automobile manufacturer founded in 1908 and headquartered in the United States. He also became a resolute critic of the Warren Court as well as the Civil Rights Movement, decrying the civil disobedience of the type practiced by Martin Luther King, Jr. and his followers as lawless. See also Protests of 1968 Historically the civil rights movement was a concentrated period of time around the world of approximately twenty years (1960-1980 in Civil disobedience is the active refusal to obey certain Laws demands and commands of a Government, or of an occupying power, without resorting to physical Martin Luther King Jr ( January 15, 1929 April 4, 1968) was an American clergyman, Activist and prominent leader Like many conservatives, he criticized the Civil Rights Act of 1964 as unconstitutional. Origins The bill was introduced by President John F Kennedy in his civil rights speech of June 11 1963, in which he asked for legislation "giving

Whittaker died in 1973 at St. Luke's Hospital in Kansas City of a ruptured abdominal aneurysm. An aneurysm (or aneurism) is a localized blood-filled dilation (balloon-like bulge of a blood vessel caused by disease or weakening of the vessel wall He was survived by his wife, Winifred, and three sons, Charles Keith, Kent C. and Gary T.

The federal courthouse in downtown Kansas City, Missouri, which houses the United States District Court for the Western District of Missouri, is named in memory of Whittaker. The United States District Court for the Western District of Missouri is the federal judicial district encompassing 66 counties in the western

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Preceded by
John Caskie Collet		 Judge of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Eighth Circuit
1956-1957		 Succeeded by
Marion Charles Matthes
Preceded by
Stanley Forman Reed		 Associate Justice of the Supreme Court of the United States
March 25, 1957 – March 31, 1962		 Succeeded by
Byron White
The United States Court of Appeals for the Eighth Circuit is a federal court with Appellate jurisdiction over the district courts in the following For the Indian newspaper editor and British politician see Stanley Reed. This is a list of past and present justices of the Supreme Court of the United States. Events 1199 - Richard I is wounded by a crossbow bolt while fighting France which leads to his death on April 6. Year 1957 ( MCMLVII) was a Common year starting on Tuesday (link displays the 1957 Gregorian calendar) Events 307 - After divorcing his wife Minervina, Constantine marries Fausta, the daughter of the retired Roman Emperor Year 1962 ( MCMLXII) was a Common year starting on Monday (the link is to a full 1962 calendar of the Gregorian calendar. Byron Raymond White ( June 8, 1917 &ndash April 15, 2002) won fame both as a football Running back and as an associate justice of
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