Stewart, Potter (1915-1985), was an associate justice of the Supreme Court of the United States from 1958 to 1981. On the court, Stewart could not be labeled as a conservative or a liberal. He voted with the conservative justices on some cases and with the liberals on others.
Stewart was born in Jackson, Michigan. His father, James Garfield Stewart, became an Ohio supreme court judge. Potter Stewart attended Yale University, Yale Law School, and Cambridge University. He practiced law in Cincinnati, and he was elected to the Cincinnati city council in 1949. Stewart served as a judge of the federal court of appeals from 1954 to 1958.
