“Supreme Court Justice” Byron White Hand Signed TLS Dated 1980 COA For Sale

Up for sale “Supreme

Court Justice” Byron White Hand Signed TLS Dated 1980.

ES-2309

  Byron 1917 – April 15, 2002) was an American lawyer and professional football player who served as an Associate Justice of the Supreme Court of the

United States from 1962 to 1993. Born and raised in Colorado, he played college football, basketball, and baseball

for the University of Colorado,

finishing as the runner up for the Heisman Trophy in 1937. He was selected in the first

round of the 1938 NFL Draft by

the Pittsburgh Pirates and

led the National Football League in

rushing yards in his rookie season. White was admitted to Yale Law School in 1939 and played for the Detroit Lions in the 1940 and 1941 seasons. During World War II, he served as an intelligence officer with

the United States Navy in

the Pacific. After the war, he graduated from Yale and clerked for Chief

Justice Fred M. Vinson. White

entered private practice in Denver, Colorado, working primarily as a transactional

attorney. He served as the Colorado state chair of John F. and accepted appointment as the United

States Deputy Attorney General in 1961. In 1962, President

Kennedy successfully nominated White to the Supreme Court, making White the

first Supreme Court Justice from Colorado. He retired in 1993 and was succeeded by Ruth Bader Ginsburg. White

is the twelfth longest-serving justice in Supreme Court history. White viewed

his own court decisions as based on the facts of each case rather than as

representative of a specific legal philosophy. He wrote the majority opinion in

cases including Coker v. Georgia, Washington v. Davis and Bowers v. Hardwick. He

wrote dissenting opinions in notable cases such as Miranda v. Arizona, Immigration and Naturalization Service v. Chadha, NCAA v. Board of Regents of the University of Oklahoma,

and Roe v. Wade.

View more great items

L