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  Byron White - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Wade, though White's dissent used stronger language, suggesting that Roe was "an exercise in raw judicial power" and criticizing the decision for "interposing a constitutional barrier to state efforts to protect human life." White, who usually adhered firmly to the doctrine of stare decisis remained a critic of Roe throughout his term on the bench.
White, however, was not against the death penalty in all forms: he voted to uphold the death penalty statutes at issue in Gregg v.
White accepted the position that the Eighth Amendment to the United States Constitution required that all punishments be "proportional" to the crime; thus, he wrote the opinion in Coker v.
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 White, Byron Raymond. The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition. 2001-05
Fort Collins, Colo. An All-America football player nicknamed “Whizzer” who later starred as a professional, White was also a member of Phi Beta Kappa at the Univ. of Colorado, from which he graduated as valedictorian in 1938.
White served (1946–47) as law clerk for Chief Justice Frederick Vinson before going to Denver to practice corporate law.
After President Nixon’s conservative appointments to the court, White became known as a “swing” justice, generally voting with the liberals on civil-rights cases, but with the conservatives on personal liberty and criminal-justice issues.
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 White, Byron Raymond - MSN Encarta
Byron Raymond White (1917-2002), American jurist, associate justice of the Supreme Court of the United States from 1962 to 1993.
White was born in Fort Collins, Colorado, on June 8, 1917, and grew up in the tiny town of Wellington.
White wrote that the Miranda ruling “will return a killer, a rapist or other criminal to the streets and to the environment which produced him, to repeat his crime whenever it pleases him.” But while impatient with constitutional protections for suspects, he was uncomfortable with laws that worked to the advantage of segregationists.
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 Retired Supreme Court Justice Byron White dies of pneumonia
White had kept a court office since his retirement, but closed it last year and moved back to his native Colorado, a signal to many that his health was perilous.
White died yesterday morning in Denver, of complications from pneumonia, a statement from the Supreme Court said.
White also authored decisions that struck down capital punishment for rapists, declared nude dancing to be a constitutionally protected form of expression, exempted "kiddie porn" from free-speech protections, and stripped presidential Cabinet members of the absolute immunity from civil lawsuits they once enjoyed.
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 ESPN Classic - After football, White served on Supreme Court
White died Monday morning in Denver, of complications from pneumonia, a statement from the Supreme Court said.
White was a two-way star at the University of Colorado and was the runner-up for the Heisman Trophy in 1937.
White also authored decisions that struck down capital punishment for rapists, declared nude dancing to be a constitutionally protected form of expression, exempted "kiddie porn" from free-speech protections, and stripped presidential Cabinet members of the absolute immunity form civil lawsuits they once enjoyed.
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JESSE L. One of the very first settlers of White County was Jesse L. Watson, who was born in Virginia in 1805 and came to what is now White County in 1830, which was his home until his death, which occurred at Monon December 24, 1884.
White, of Union Township, the owner of a splendid farm in that district, and a man who brought the experience and judgment of an Illinois farmer and also a considerable amount of capital, representing the proceeds of an Illinois farm, to his new home in White County.
White served as trustee of his township in that state, and was also a director on the school board.
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 White, Byron Raymond - HighBeam Encyclopedia   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-31)
WHITE, BYRON RAYMOND [White, Byron Raymond] 1917-2002, associate justice of the U.S. Supreme Court (1962-93), b.
White served (1946-47) as law clerk for Chief Justice Frederick Vinson before going to Denver to practice corporate law.
Byron and 'The Liberal': periodical as political posture.
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 Professional Football Researchers Association- Pro Football History
White ranked first in his class academically, was president of the student government, and had been awarded a Rhodes Scholarship to attend graduate school at Oxford University in England.
White was asked whether he was as good a player in the NFL as he had been in college.
Byron White led the league in rushing yardage with 216 yards and in rushing attempts with 81 carries.
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 Justice White dies of pneumonia - Pittsburgh Tribune-Review
White died yesterday morning in Denver, of complications from pneumonia, the court announced.
White also wrote for the court when it struck down capital punishment for rapists, declared nude dancing a constitutionally protected form of expression, exempted child pornography from free-speech protections and stripped presidential Cabinet members of the absolute immunity from civil lawsuits they once enjoyed.
White had kept a court office since his retirement, but closed it last year and moved back to Colorado, a signal to many that his health was perilous.
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 Carillon   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-31)
White was the first Coloradoan appointed to be a Justice of the U.S. Supreme Court in 1962 by President John F. Kennedy.
White graduated from CU-Boulder in 1938 with a bachelor's degree in economics.
White was married to Marion Stearns White, daughter of former CU president Robert Stearns.
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 Encyclopedia
White was a Rhodes scholar at the University of Oxford (1939) before entering Yale Law School.
White conducted this spacewalk during the Gemini 4 mission on June 3, 1965.
Ed White was the first American astronaut to perform a spacewalk.
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Byron White was valedictorian at the University of Colorado, was a member of Phi Beta Kappa, and was a Rhodes scholar.
Byron White served as justice on the Supreme Court until he retired in 1993.
However, Justice White immediately left the conference and spent the next half hour warmly visiting with El Presidente and his entourage and assuring him that the law clerk was a person of flawless character.
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 'Whizzer' White career highlights   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-31)
Highlights in the career of Byron Raymond "Whizzer" White, the former University of Colorado football star and U.S. Supreme Court justice, who died Monday at the age of 84.
White was also a.400 hitter on the baseball team, and a standout on CU's basketball squad that made the N.I.T. in 1938.
White was selected to CU's All-Century Team in 1989, marking the school's first 100 years of football, and his football number, 24, was the first retired by the University.
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 Guardian Unlimited | Obituaries | Byron White
Byron White, who has died of complications following a bout of pneumonia, aged 84, would prefer to be remembered as a long-serving justice on America's supreme court, rather than as an all-American gridiron star who went on to wider success.
And, perhaps because of his experience with and dislike of fame, White never courted the spotlight, as is the wont of many current justices, and refused to play to the media gallery.
White personally organised the federal marshals who protected civil rights workers in the South, a responsibility J Edgar Hoover's FBI had declined to accept.
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 Byron White   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-31)
Byron Raymond White (June 8, 1917 - April 15, 2002) won fame both as a bruising running back and as an associate justice of the Supreme Court of the United States.
In the 1930s, White was a star football player for the University of Colorado, where he acquired the nickname "Whizzer", which he later came to despise.
During World War II, White served as an intelligence officer in the U.S. Navy stationed in the Pacific Theatre, writing the intelligence report on the sinking of future President John F. Kennedy's PT 109.
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 JURIST - Justice Byron White
White had known my Grandfather He died before I was born so I didn't know him and I remember a blue book of the White family history and Mr.
Justice White, no doubt was a very intelligent and willful man. Given the amount of time he served, 31 years in total (1962-1993), and the tumultuous times that he served, he had the chance to leave a far different legacy for himself, but chose not to.
White is possibly the most underrated Justice in the history of the Court.
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 Justice White - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Edward Douglass White, Chief Justice of the United States Supreme Court
Byron Raymond White, Associate Justice of the United States Supreme Court
This is a disambiguation page: a list of articles associated with the same title.
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 White, Byron Raymond - Related Items - MSN Encarta
White, Byron Raymond - Related Items - MSN Encarta
As Clarence Thomas took his place on the Supreme Court in late October 1991, conservatives had high hopes that the 1991-1992 term, which had just begun, would be a watershed.
The conservative majority had solidified its grip on the High Court the previous term with the retirement of Justice William...
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 CUA Columbus School of Law
The event was held in coordination with the memorial service planned for Justice White at the United States Supreme Court on the afternoon of November 18th.
     Appointed by President Kennedy in 1962, Byron R. White was an independent and sometimes lonely voice on the Supreme Court amidst the swirling social activism of the 1960s.
A dissenter from many of the court's liberal rulings of that time, he was a consistent member of the court's increasingly conservative majority. His opinion writing reflected his essential character: precise, methodical and impatient to finish the job.
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 The Political Graveyard: Index to Politicians: White, A to B
White, A. — of Sanford, Lee County, N.C. Mayor of Sanford, N.C. Still living as of 1953.
Andrew Dickson; son of Horace White and Clara (Dickson) White; married 1859 to Mary A.
White, Arthur Percy — also known as A.
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 Byron White, ex-Supreme Court justice, football star Chicago Sun-Times - Find Articles
WASHINGTON--Retired Supreme Court Justice Byron R. White, a football hero whose reputation for clear-headed legal thinking and a hardheaded personality was honed through three decades on the nation's highest court, died Monday.
He favored greater governmental accommodation of religion--in ways more liberal justices considered violations of the constitutionally required separation of church and state.
Active in Kennedy's later presidential campaign, White was named as Attorney General Robert F. Kennedy's deputy in charge of day-to- day operations at the Justice Department.
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 White, Byron Raymond - ENCYCLOPEDIA - The History Channel UK
White, Byron Raymond, 1917-2002, associate justice of the U.S. Supreme Court (1962-93), b.
White served (1946-47) as law clerk for Chief Justice Frederick Vinson
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 AllRefer.com - Byron Raymond White (Supreme Court, Biography) - Encyclopedia
AllRefer.com - Byron Raymond White (Supreme Court, Biography) - Encyclopedia
Byron Raymond White 1917–2002, associate justice of the U.S. Supreme Court (1962–93), b.
Hardwick (1986) he wrote a decision that upheld Georgia's sodomy statutes.
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 Byron Raymond White
White served (1946–47) as law clerk for Chief Justice Frederick
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 Denver Rocky Mountain News: BYRON RAYMOND WHITE 1917-2002 `COLORADO LEGEND' MADE HISTORY ON HIGH COURT, FOOTBALL ...   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-31)
Byron White, a son of small-town Colorado who became a football hero, a decorated Naval officer and a longtime Supreme Court Justice, died Monday in Denver.
White was known for his prowess on the football field, his brilliance in school and his longevity on the U.S. Supreme Court, where he spent more than 30 years.
``He was sort of a larger-than-life person,'' said Denver attorney James Scarboro, one of White's former Supreme Court...
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