born June 8, 1917, Fort Collins, Colo., U.S.
died April 15, 2002, Denver, Colo.
U.S. jurist.
An accomplished athlete, he played football with the Pittsburgh Pirates (now Steelers) and the Detroit Lions. He attended the University of Oxford as a Rhodes scholar before studying law at Yale. White clerked for Fred M. Vinson and later practiced corporate law in Colorado. In 1961 he was named deputy U.S. attorney general by Pres. John F. Kennedy , and the following year he was appointed to the U.S. Supreme Court . His opinions and votes on the court were generally moderate to conservative. He retired in 1993.