What is Potter Stewart?
{{Infobox officeholder |name = Potter Stewart |image = US Supreme Court Justice Potter Stewart - 1976 official portrait.jpg |office = [[Associate Justice of the Supreme Court of the United States]] |nominator = [[Dwight D. Eisenhower|Dwight Eisenhower]] |term_start = October 14, 1958 |term_end = July 3, 1981 |predecessor = [[Harold Hitz Burton|Harold Burton]] |successor = [[Sandra Day O'Connor]] |office1 = Judge of the [[United States Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit]] |nominator1 = Dwight Eisenhower |term_start1 = April 27, 1954 |term_end1 = October 14, 1958 |predecessor1 = [[Xenophon Hicks]] |successor1 = [[Lester LeFevre Cecil|Lester Cecil]] |birth_date = {{birth date|1915|1|23}} |birth_place = [[Jackson, Michigan]], U.S. |death_date = {{death date and age|1985|12|7|1915|1|23}} |death_place = [[Hanover, New Hampshire]], U.S. |restingplace = [[Arlington National Cemetery]] |party = [[Republican Party (United States)|Republican]] |education = [[Yale University]] {{small|([[Bachelor of Arts|BA]], [[Bachelor of Laws|LLB]])}} }} '''Potter Stewart''' (January 23, 1915{{spaced ndash}}December 7, 1985) was an American judge. He was the [[Associate Justice of the Supreme Court of the United States]] from 1958 through 1981. During his tenure, he made, among other areas, major contributions to [[criminal justice reform]], civil rights, access to the courts, and views of the [[Fourth Amendment to the United States Constitution|Fourth Amendment]].<ref>Friedman, Leon. ''The Justices of the United States Supreme Court: Their Lives and Major Opinions'', Volume V. Chelsea House Publishers. 1978. page 291–292.</ref> Stewart died of a [[stroke]] at his [[Hanover, New Hampshire]] home on December 7, 1985, aged 70. ==References== {{reflist}} ==Other websites== {{Wikiquote-inline}} *[http://www.ca6.uscourts.gov/lib_hist/Courts/supreme/judges/stewart/stewart.html Biography, bibliography, location of papers on Potter Stewart] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.