branch death_date children allegiance termstart termend birth_date birthname term_end nominator alma_mater death_place title battles term_start spouse image predecessor birth_place president awards office successor religion article_title
united states navy 15 april 2002 charles -lrb- barney -rrb- byron white nancy pitkin white united states april 16 , 1962 june 28 , 1993 8 june 1917 byron raymond white april 16 , 1962 john f. kennedy university school of colorado hertford college , oxford yale law denver , colorado , united states 4th united states deputy attorney general world war ii january 20 , 1961 marion -rrb- lloyd stearns -lrb- 1946-2002 -rrb- -lrb- his death justice white official.jpg charles evans whittaker lawrence e. walsh fort collins , colorado , united states john f. kennedy bronze star -lrb- 2 -rrb- associate justice of the united states supreme court ruth bader ginsburg nicholas katzenbach episcopalian byron white

byron white

byron raymond white -lrb- june 8 , 1917 -- april 15 , 2002 -rrb- won fame both as a football halfback and as an associate justice of the supreme court of the united states .
born and raised in colorado , white played in the national football league for three seasons and practiced law for 15 years before his supreme court appointment .
white was the colorado state chair of john f. kennedy 's 1960 presidential campaign .
white was appointed to the supreme court by kennedy in 1962 .
he viewed his own court decisions as based on the facts of each case rather than as representative of a specific legal philosophy .
he retired in 1993 and is the twelfth longest-serving justice in supreme court history .
he died in denver at the age of 84 .
he was the first supreme court justice from the state of colorado .
