# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/charles-evans-whittaker
# Generated: 2026-08-14T17:12:27.019Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/charles-evans-whittaker"
name: "Charles Evans Whittaker"
slug: "charles-evans-whittaker"
description: "Charles Evans Whittaker 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 for the United States District Court for the Western District of Missouri. In 1956, President Dwight D. Eisenhower nominated Whittaker to the United States Court of Appeals for the Eighth Circuit. In 1957, he won confirmation to the Supreme Court of the United States, thus becoming the first individual to serve as a judge on a federal district court, a federal court of appeals, and the United States Supreme Court. During his brief tenure on the Warren Court, Whittaker emerged as a swing vote. In 1962, he had a nervous breakdown and resigned from the court. After leaving the Supreme Court, he served as chief counsel to General Motors and frequently criticized the Civil Rights Movement and the Warren Court."
tagline: "American judge (1901-1973)"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Charles_Whittaker.jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
country:
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  isoCode: "US"
category:
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profileType:
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  slug: "lawyer"
birthDate: "1901-02-22"
deathDate: "1973-11-26"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
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  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     45
  profileCompleteness:  70
  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
ranks:
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  country:  null
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump