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Charles Evans Whittaker was born on 22 February, 1901 in Troy, Kansas, U.S., is a US Supreme Court justice from 1957 to 1962. Discover Charles Evans Whittaker's Biography, Age, Height, Physical Stats, Dating/Affairs, Family and career updates. Learn How rich is he in this year and how he spends money? Also learn how he earned most of networth at the age of 72 years old?

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Age 72 years old
Zodiac Sign Pisces
Born 22 February, 1901
Birthday 22 February
Birthplace Troy, Kansas, U.S.
Date of death 26 November, 1973
Died Place Kansas City, Missouri, U.S.
Nationality United States

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1901

Charles Evans Whittaker (February 22, 1901 – November 26, 1973) was an Associate Justice of the United States Supreme Court from 1957 to 1962.

After working in private practice in Kansas City, Missouri, he was nominated for the United States District Court for the Western District of Missouri.

1920

In the summer of 1920, he applied to the part-time evening program at the Kansas City School of Law (currently the University of Missouri–Kansas City School of Law) and gained admission with the condition that he would finish his high school education after personally pleading with Oliver Dean, the president of the law school.

He immediately enrolled at Manual High School in Kansas City, Missouri and spent the next four years working during the day to support himself, while taking high school and law school courses in the evenings.

Whittaker's law school classmates included future President Harry S. Truman.

1924

Whittaker graduated in the class of 1924 with a Bachelor of Laws having been admitted to the Missouri bar during his senior year.

Whittaker joined the law firm of Watson, Ess, Marshall & Enggas in Kansas City, Missouri, where he previously worked full-time as an office boy, and built up a practice in corporate law with the Union Pacific Railroad, Montgomery Ward, and the City National Bank and Trust Company among his clients.

He was a member of Tau Kappa Epsilon Fraternity and developed close ties to the Republican Party.

1954

Whittaker was nominated by President Dwight D. Eisenhower on May 11, 1954, to a seat on the United States District Court for the Western District of Missouri vacated by Judge Albert L. Reeves.

He was confirmed by the United States Senate on July 7, 1954, and received his commission the next day.

1956

In 1956, President Dwight D. Eisenhower nominated Whittaker to the United States Court of Appeals for the Eighth Circuit.

His service terminated on June 21, 1956, due to his elevation to the Eighth Circuit.

Whittaker was nominated by President Eisenhower on March 16, 1956, to a seat on the United States Court of Appeals for the Eighth Circuit vacated by Judge John Caskie Collet.

He was confirmed by the Senate on June 4, 1956, and received his commission the next day.

1957

In 1957, he won confirmation to the Supreme Court of the United States, thus becoming the first individual to serve as a judge on a federal district court, a federal court of appeals, and the United States Supreme Court.

During his brief tenure on the Warren Court, Whittaker emerged as a swing vote.

His service terminated on March 24, 1957, due to his elevation to the Supreme Court of the United States.

Whittaker was nominated by President Eisenhower on March 2, 1957, as an associate justice of the Supreme Court, to succeed Stanley Forman Reed.

He was confirmed by the Senate on March 19, 1957, by a unanimous vote.

Whittaker took the judicial oath of office on March 25, 1957.

He thus became the first person to serve as a judge of a United States District Court, a United States Court of Appeals, and the Supreme Court of the United States.

Samuel Blatchford also served at all three levels of the federal judiciary, but the court system was configured slightly differently at that time.

Ketanji Brown Jackson is the most recent justice to have served in all three levels of the federal judiciary.

Whittaker served as Circuit Justice of the Eighth Circuit and the Tenth Circuit for his duration of service on the Supreme Court.

On the closely divided Supreme Court, Whittaker was a swing vote.

According to Professor Howard Ball, Whittaker was an "extremely weak, vacillating justice" who was "courted by the two cliques on the Court because his vote was generally up in the air and typically went to the group that made the last, but not necessarily the best, argument."

Whittaker failed to develop a consistent judicial philosophy and reportedly felt himself not as qualified as some of the other members of the Court.

1962

In 1962, he had a nervous breakdown and resigned from the Court.

After leaving the Supreme Court, he served as chief counsel to General Motors and frequently criticized the Civil Rights Movement and the Warren Court.

Whittaker was born on a farm near Troy, Kansas to Charles Edward Whittaker, a farmer, and Ida Eve Miller, a schoolteacher from Hagerstown, Maryland.

He attended the nearby one-room Brush Creek School, and then the Troy High School until he dropped out in the ninth grade after his mother died on his sixteenth birthday.

He spent the next three years working on a family farm, and also hunting and trapping.

Whittaker developed an interest in law by reading newspaper articles about criminal trials.

After agonizing deeply for months over his vote in Baker v. Carr, a landmark reapportionment case, Whittaker had a nervous breakdown in the spring of 1962.

At the behest of Chief Justice Earl Warren, Whittaker recused himself from the case and retired from the Court effective March 31, 1962 due to a certified disability, citing exhaustion from the heavy workload and stress.

As of 2023, Whittaker remains the only Supreme Court Justice appointed from Missouri.

He is also the most recently appointed Justice to have received his legal education from a public law school.

1965

Effective September 30, 1965, Whittaker resigned his position as a retired Justice in order to become chief counsel to General Motors.

He also became a resolute critic of the Warren Court as well as the Civil Rights Movement, characterizing the civil disobedience of the type practiced by Martin Luther King Jr. and his followers as lawless.

He wrote a piece for the FBI Law Enforcement Bulletin that advised protesters to use courts instead of taking to the streets.