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POTTER STEWART
was born in Jackson, Michigan, on January 23, 1915. He
was graduated from Yale College in 1937. After one year
of postgraduate study at Cambridge University, England,
he enrolled in Yale Law School. Following graduation in
1941, Stewart worked in a New York law firm. Stewart’s
legal career had just begun when the United States entered
World War II. He served as an officer in the United States
Navy and occasionally performed legal services in court-martials.
After the War he practiced law in New York but soon returned
to Cincinnati and joined a law firm there. Stewart practiced
law in Cincinnati until 1954. He was twice elected to
the City Counsel and served as Vice Mayor form 1952 to
1953. President Dwight D. Eisenhower appointed Stewart
to the United States Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit
in 1954, where he served for four years. On October 14,
1958, President Eisenhower gave Stewart a recess appointment
to the Supreme Court of the United States. On January
17, 1959, Stewart was formally nominated to the Court,
and the Senate confirmed the appointment on May 5, 1959.
Stewart retired from the Supreme Court on July 3, 1981,
after twenty-three years of service. He died on December
7, 1985, at the age of seventy. |
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