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CHARLES E.
WHITTAKER was born in Troy, Kansas, on February 22, 1901.
He left school at the age of sixteen to work on the family
farm. Four years later, with tutoring, he was able to
qualify for the University of Kansas City Law School and
received a degree in 1924. He was admitted to the bar
one year before his graduation. Whittaker joined the Kansas
City law firm where he had worked part-time as an office
boy during his student years and became a senior partner
in two years. For the next thirty years, he practiced
law. Whittaker was President of the Missouri bar Association
form 1953 to 1954. In 1954, President Dwight D. Eisenhower
appointed Whittaker to the United States District Court
for the Western District of Missouri. Two years later,
President Eisenhower elevated him to the United States
Court of Appeals for the Eighth Circuit. Whittaker R had
served for less than one year when, on March 2, 1957,
President Eisenhower nominated him to the Supreme Court
of the United States. The Senate confirmed the appointment
on March 19, 1957. Whittaker served on the Supreme Court
for five years. He retired on March 31, 1962, and died
November 26, 1973, at the age of seventy-two. |
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