Reminiscences of Potter Stewart : oral history, 1981.

Biographical Note

Supreme Court Justice.

Scope and Contents

Background and early education; Yale Law School, 1938-41; work with New York law firm Debevoise-Plimpton, 1941-42, 1945-47; service in U.S. Navy, 1942-45; move to Cincinnati, 1947; early involvement in politics as City Council member, Cincinnati; appointment to seat as federal judge, 6th Circuit, 1954; appointment to the United States Supreme Court, 1958; procedures and protocol of the Supreme Court; various cases of the Supreme Court, 1958-81.

Subjects

• Edwin, Ed, interviewer.--http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/ivr
• Interviews.
• Judges--Interviews.
• Judicial process.
• Ohio--Politics and government.
• Oral histories.
• Practice of law.
• Stewart, Potter.
• United States. Circuit Court (6th Circuit)
• United States. Supreme Court.

Access Conditions

Copyright by The Trustees of Columbia University in the City of New York, 1984.