Potter Stewart - Education, Life experience, Supreme Court service

Judge, born in Jackson, Michigan, USA. He was in private practice and involved in Cincinnati politics when he was appointed to the US Court of Appeals (1954–8). President Eisenhower named him to the US Supreme Court (1959–81), where he took independent and moderate judicial positions.

Potter Stewart

Associate Justice of the Supreme Court of the United States Term in office
October 14, 1958 – July 3, 1981
Preceded by	Harold Hitz Burton
Succeeded by	Sandra Day O'Connor
Born	January 23, 1915 Jackson, Michigan
Died	December 7, 1985

Potter Stewart (January 23, 1915 – December 7, 1985) was an Associate Justice of the United States Supreme Court.

Education

Stewart was born in Jackson, Michigan while his family was on vacation.

Stewart attended the Hotchkiss School, graduating in 1933.

Life experience

He served in World War II as a member of the US Navy Reserve aboard oil tankers.

Supreme Court service

In 1958, President Eisenhower nominated Stewart to the Supreme Court to replace Justice Harold Hitz Burton, who was retiring.

Stewart retained a moderate outlook throughout his tenure on the Court, perhaps best typified by his joining the decision in Furman v. Stewart dissented from the Court's decision in Griswold v.

To the lay public, Stewart may be best known for a quotation, or a fragment thereof, from his opinion in the obscenity case of Jacobellis v.

Prior to the appointment of Warren Burger as Chief Justice, many speculated that President Nixon would elevate Stewart to the post, some going so far as to call him the front-runner.

Stewart remained on the Court until his retirement in July 1981 at the age of 66.

After his retirement, he appeared in a series of public television specials about the United States Constitution with Fred W.

Stewart's personal and official papers are archived at the manuscript library of Yale University in New Haven, Connecticut. However, all files concerning Stewart's service are closed to researchers until all the justices with whom Stewart served have left the court. Thus, the files are expected to be made public following the departure from the court of Justice John Paul Stevens, who is the last sitting justice who served with Stewart.

Preceded by: Xenophon Hicks	Judge of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit 1954–1958	Succeeded by: Lester LeFevre Cecil
Preceded by: Harold Hitz Burton	Associate Justice of the Supreme Court of the United States October 14, 1958 – July 3, 1981	Succeeded by: Sandra Day O'Connor