Charles Evans Whittaker
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| Associate Justice of the Supreme Court of the United States | |
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In office March 22, 1957 – March 31, 1962 |
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| Nominated by | Dwight Eisenhower |
| Preceded by | Stanley Reed |
| Succeeded by | Byron White |
| Judge of the United States Court of Appeals for the Eighth Circuit | |
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In office June 5, 1956 – March 22, 1957 |
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| Nominated by | Dwight Eisenhower |
| Preceded by | John Collet |
| Succeeded by | Marion Matthes |
| Judge of the United States District Court for the Western District of Missouri | |
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In office July 8, 1954 – June 5, 1956 |
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| Nominated by | Dwight Eisenhower |
| Preceded by | Albert Reeves |
| Succeeded by | Randle Smith |
| Personal details | |
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February 22, 1901 Troy, Kansas, U.S. |
| Died |
November 26, 1973 (aged 72) Kansas City, Missouri, U.S. |
| Political party | Republican |
| Education | University of Missouri, Kansas City (LLB) |
Charles Evans Whittaker (February 22, 1901 – November 26, 1973) was an Associate Justice of the United States Supreme Court from 1957 to 1962.
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. 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, a president of the law school. Immediately, he enrolled at Manual High School in Kansas City. He spent the next four years working during the day to support himself, and in the evenings was taking high school courses as well as classes at the K. C. School of Law. While Whittaker was a student at the school, future president Harry S. Truman was a classmate. Whittaker was graduated in the class of 1924 having being 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 toiled 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 developed close ties to the Republican party. He was appointed as a federal judge on the U.S. District Court for the Western District of Missouri on July 8, 1954. He was nominated to the Eighth Circuit Court of Appeals on June 5, 1956.
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