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Souter was born in Melrose, Massachusetts. He was the only child of Joseph A. Souter and Helen Hackett Souter. His father was a banker, who died in 1976. He spent most of his childhood and adolescence at his family's farm in Weare, New Hampshire. He attended Concord High School , graduating in 1957.
He went on to Harvard College, from which he received his A.B., majoring in philosophy and writing a senior thesis on Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr. He graduated from Harvard magna cum laude in 1961. He was elected to Phi Beta Kappa. He was a Rhodes Scholar and chose to attend Magdalen College, Oxford, where he received an A.B. in Jurisprudence from Oxford University and an M.A. in 1963. He then entered Harvard Law School, graduating in 1966.
He first worked as an associate at Orr and Reno in Concord, New HampshireConcord is the capital of New Hampshire, a state of the United States of America. As of the 2000 census, it has a population of 40,687. It is the county seat of Merrimack County. Concord is the home of Franklin Pierce Law Center, the only law school in Ne from 1966 to 1968. But when he was offered a position as an Assistant Attorney General of New HampshireNew Hampshire is a state in the New England region of the United States (U. postal abbreviation NH , named for the English county of Hampshire. New Hampshire is called the "Granite State" because it has numerous granite quarries, although that industry ha in 1968, he accepted it. This began his public service. Here he worked in the criminal division, prosecuting cases in the courts. In 1971, Warren RudmanWarren Bruce Rudman (born May 18, 1930) was an American Senator from New Hampshire. He was elected as a Republican in 1980 and re-elected in 1986, and was known as a pragmatic centrist. He chose not to run for re-election in 1992. He is now a partner in t, then the Attorney General of New Hampshire, selected him to be the Deputy Attorney General. This began a lifelong friendship.
In 1976, Souter became the Attorney General of New Hampshire, when Rudman resigned to enter private practice. In 1978, he was named an Associate Justice of the Superior Court of New Hampshire, and was appointed to the Supreme Court of New Hampshire as an Associate Justice in 1983. He became a Judge of the United States Court of Appeals for the First CircuitThe United States Court of Appeals for the First Circuit is a federal court with appellate jurisdiction over the following United States District Courts: District of Maine District of Massachusetts District of New Hampshire District of Puerto Rico Distric on May 25, 1990. His old friend Warren Rudman, had since been elected a Senator. Rudman was instrumental in both this appointment, and his appointment to the Supreme Court.
President George H. W. BushGeorge Herbert Walker Bush (born June 12, 1924) was the 41st President of the United States ( 1989 1993). Previously, he had served as ambassador to the United Nations ( 1971 1973), director of the CIA 1976 1977, and the 43rd Vice President of the United nominated him as an Associate Justice of the Supreme Court, and he took his seat October 9October 9 is the 282nd day of the year (283rd in Leap years). There are 83 days remaining. Events 1000 Leif Ericson discovers Vinland, becoming the first known European to set foot in North America. 1238 James I of Aragon conquered Valencia and founded th, 1990. The United States SenateThe United States Senate is the upper house of the United States Congress, smaller than the U. House of Representatives. Together, they compose the legislative branch of the United States government. Seal of the Senate Each state elects two senators throu approved his seat 90 to 9. The press called him the "stealth justice," since his professional record provoked no real controversy.
Souter, along with Rehnquist and Breyer, has a reputation for being a strong guardian of the court's institutional integrity. Although appointed by a Republican president, he tends to side with liberals rather than the conservatives. He dissented from the Court's opinion on the Bush v. Gore election of 2000 case.
Souter enjoys mountain climbing in New Hampshire during the judicial off-season. He is Co-chair of the We the People National Advisory Committee. He is unmarried, a lifelong bachelor.
After he was sworn in he said: "The first lesson, simple as it is, is that whatever court we're in, whatever we are doing, at the end of our task some human being is going to be affected. Some human life is going to be changed by what we do. And so we had better use every power of our minds and our hearts and our beings to get those rulings right."
On April 30 2004, Souter suffered minor injuries when a group of young men assaulted him as he jogged on a city street in Washington, D.C..
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