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Byron White  

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  • Byron White (1917–2002) was born in Colorado, attended the University of Colorado, where he was an All-American in football (and earned the name “Whizzer”), earned a Rhodes Scholarship at Oxford, played professional football, served in the navy in World War II, and earned a law degree at Yale University, after which he clerked for Chief Justice Fred Vinson. White worked to elect President John F. Kennedy, who appointed him as a deputy attorney general in 1961 and then as an associate justice of the U.S. Supreme Court in 1962, where he served until 1993. [Source: Encyclopedia of the Fourth Amendment; White, Byron]

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