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Stewart was born in Jackson, Michigan while his family was on vacation. His father, James G. Stewart , was a prominent Republican from Cincinnati, Ohio. His father served as Mayor of Cincinnati for seven years and was later a judge on the Ohio Supreme Court.
Stewart attended the Hotchkiss School, graduating in 1933. Then, he went on to Yale University, where he graduated in 1937. Here he was elected to Phi Beta Kappa and served as chairman of the student newspaper, The Yale Daily News. He graduated from Yale Law School in 19411941 is also the title of a Steven Spielberg movie made in 1979 see 1941 (film). Events January January 6 Franklin Delano Roosevelt delivers his Four Freedoms Speech in the State of the Union Address. January 10 Lend-Lease is introduced into the United St, where he was an editor of the Yale Law Journal. At Yale, he was a member of Phi Delta Phi fraternity. Other members of that era included Gerald R. Ford, Peter H. Dominick , Walter Lord , William Scranton , R. Sargent Shriver, Cyrus R. Vance, and Byron R. White.
He served in World War IIWorld War II was the most extensive and costly armed conflict in the history of the world, involving the great majority of the world's nations, being fought simultaneously in several major theatres, and costing tens of millions of lives. The war was fough as a member of the US Naval Reserve aboard oil tankers.
In 19431943 is the common year starting on Friday. Events January January 4 End of term for Culbert Olson, 29th Governor of California. He is succeeded by Earl Warren. January 11 The United States and United Kingdom give up territorial rights in China. January 1, he married Mary Ann Bertles in a ceremony at Bruton Episcopal Church in Williamsburg, VirginiaWilliamsburg is a city located on the Virginia Peninsula in the Hampton Roads area of Virginia. As of the 2000 census, the city had a total population of 11,998. It is the county seat of James City County 6, although it is itself an independent city.. His brother, Zeph Stewart, was the Best Man. They eventually had a daughter, Harriet (Virkstis), and two sons, Potter, Jr. and David.
At the age of 39, in 1954, he was appointed to the United States Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit. In 1958, President Eisenhower nominated Stewart to the Supreme Court to replace Justice Harold Hitz Burton, who was retiring. Stewart remained on the Court until his retirement in July 1981 at the age of 66.
After his retirement, he appeared in a series of public television specials about the United States Constitution with Fred W. Friendly.
Stewart retained a moderate outlook throughout his tenure on the Court, perhaps best typified by his joining the decision in Furman v. Georgia ( 1972) which invalidated all death penalty laws then in force, and then joining in the Court's decision four years, Gregg v. Georgia, which upheld the revised capital punishment legislation adopted in a majority of the states. Stewart dissented from the Court's decision in Griswold v. Connecticut ( 1965), invalidating a law banning the sale of contraceptives based on a "Right of Privacy," arguing that such a right did not exist, but changed his views and was a key mover behind the Court's decision in Roe v. Wade ( 1973), which recognized the right to abortion under the "Right of Privacy." Stewart wrote a concurrence in that case, accepting the right recognized in Griswold .
To the lay public, Stewart may be best known for a quotation, or a fragment thereof at least, from his opinion in the obscenity case of Jacobellis v. Ohio (1964). Stewart wrote in his short concurrence that obscenity was hard to define, but that "I know it when I see it[.]" Usually dropped from the quote is the remainder of that sentence, "and the motion picture involved in this case is not that."
| Preceded by: Harold Hitz Burton | Associate Justice | Succeeded by: Sandra Day O'Connor |
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