Byron White

Byron White
Byron White
Position (s): Halfback	Jersey numbers: 24
born June 8, 1917 in Fort Collins , Colorado
died on April 15, 2002 in Denver , Colorado
Career information
Active : 1938 - 1941
NFL Draft : 1938 / Round: 1 / Pick: 4th
College : Colorado
Teams
Pittsburgh Pirates ( 1938 ) Detroit Lions ( 1940 - 1941 )
Career statistics
Yards	1,321
Touchdowns	11
Stats at NFL.com
Stats at pro-football-reference.com
Career highlights and awards
NFL 1940s All-Decade Team 3 × All Pro Choice (1938, 1940, 1941) College Football Hall of Fame (1954) Colorado Sports Hall of Fame (1965)
College Football Hall of Fame

Byron Raymond "Whizzer" White (born June 8, 1917 in Fort Collins , Colorado , † April 15, 2002 in Denver , Colorado) was an American American football player and lawyer . From 1962 to 1993 he was a Justice on the United States Supreme Court .

biography

Player career

After attending high school in Wellington , he studied between 1934 and 1938 first at the University of Colorado in Boulder and graduated with a Bachelor of Arts (BA) from. He then began studying at the University of Oxford on a Rhodes Scholarship . He was also a member of the fraternity Phi Beta Kappa .

During his studies he was also active as a football player in the football team of his college and played as running back in 1938 for the Pittsburgh Pirates, trained by John McNally , and from 1940 to 1941 for the Detroit Lions , who were looked after by Potsy Clark and Bill Edwards in the National Football League (NFL). In 1938, as well as in 1940 and 1941, he was voted All-Pro . In the 1938 and 1940 seasons, he set the NFL annual highs for the space gained by running play. In 1939 he studied at Oxford University in England . During the Second World War he did his military service in the United States Navy from 1942 to 1946 and was awarded the Bronze Star twice for his military services . After the end of the war, he finished his law studies at Yale Law School in 1946 and was then employed by the newly appointed Chief Justice Fred M. Vinson until 1947 . He then worked as a lawyer and at times as a visiting scholar ( Fellow ) at the American College of Trial Lawyers .

Career as a lawyer and judge

In 1961 he became Deputy Attorney General ( United States Deputy Attorney General ) and thus Deputy Robert F. Kennedy . Subsequently, the President of the United States , John F. Kennedy , nominated him on April 16, 1962 as Justice of the United States Supreme Court . He held this office for more than 31 years until his resignation on June 28, 1993.

During his tenure as a judge, he often acted as a representative of minor or dissenting opinions in the following important decisions:

• Gideon v. Wainwright (1963)
• Miranda v. Arizona (1966)
• Loving v. Virginia (1967)
• Roe v. Calf (1973)
• United States v. Nixon (1974)
• Gregg v. Georgia (1976)
• Chevron USA v. Natural Resources Defense Council (1984)
• Bowers v. Hardwick (1986)

"Whizzer" White died in 2002. He was buried on the All Souls Walk at Saint Johns Cathedral in Denver.

Honors

In 2003 he was posthumously awarded the Presidential Medal of Freedom by President George W. Bush . For his sporting merits, he was inducted into the College Football Hall of Fame in 1954 , the CU Athletic Hall of Fame of his former college, the Rocky Mountain Athletic Conference Hall of Fame , and in 1965 the Colorado Sports Hall of Fame .

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• Byron White in the database of Find a Grave (English)
• Byron White in his college's hall of fame
• Whizzer White in the Colorado Sports Hall of Fame