Charles Evans Whittaker lived from February 22, 1901 to November 26, 1973 and was an associate justice of the United States Supreme Court from 1957 to 1962. After working in private practice in Kansas City, Missouri, he was nominated to the United States District Court for the Western District of Missouri, and in 1956 President Dwight D. Eisenhower nominated him to the United States Court of Appeals for the Eighth Circuit. In 1957 he won confirmation to the Supreme Court, becoming the first person to serve as a judge on a federal district court, a federal court of appeals and the Supreme Court. During his brief tenure on the Warren Court he emerged as a swing vote; in 1962 he suffered a nervous breakdown and resigned from the Court. After leaving the bench he served as chief counsel to General Motors and frequently criticized the civil rights movement and the Warren Court.
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