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Charles Evans Whittaker
Birth: February 22, 1901, Troy, Kansas.
Education: University of Kansas City Law School, LL.B., 1924.
Official Positions: Judge, U.S. District Court for the Western District of Missouri, 1954–1956; judge, U.S. Court of Appeals for the Eighth Circuit, 1956–1957.
Supreme Court Service: Nominated associate justice by President Dwight D. Eisenhower, March 2, 1957, to replace Stanley Reed, who had retired; confirmed by the Senate, March 19, 1957, by a voice vote; took judicial oath March 25, 1957; retired March 31, 1962; replaced by Byron R. White, nominated by President John F. Kennedy.
Death: November 26, 1973, Kansas City, Missouri.
Charles Evans Whittaker was no child of privilege, no great public servant, no brilliant legal scholar. His beginnings, his background, indeed his legal career all suggest a man of modest ambition, inauspicious ...
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