Justice Potter Stewart
(Jan 23, 1915 - Dec 7, 1985)

Occupation: Attorney, US Supreme Court Justice.
Education: Yale University
Interred: Arlington National Cemetery, Arlington, Virginia
Lodge affiliation:
1951 - Raised, Lafayette Lodge #81, Cincinnati, Ohio
Member of Oola Khan Grotto, Cincinnati.

Potter Stewart (January 23, 1915 - December 7, 1985) was an Associate Justice of the United States Supreme Court. During his tenure, he made, among other areas, major contributions to criminal justice reform, civil rights, access to the courts, and Fourth Amendment jurisprudence.

Stewart was born in Jackson, Michigan, while his family was on vacation. His father, James Garfield, a prominent Republican from Cincinnati, Ohio, served as mayor of Cincinnati for nine years and was later a justice on the Ohio Supreme Court.

Potter Stewart attended the Hotchkiss School, graduating in 1933. Then, he went on to Yale University, where he was a member of Delta Kappa Epsilon and Skull and Bones graduating class of 1937. He was awarded Phi Beta Kappa and served as chairman of the Yale Daily News. He graduated from Yale Law School in 1941, where he was an editor of the Yale Law Journal and a member of Phi Delta Phi.

Stewart served in World War II as a member of the U.S. Naval Reserve aboard oil tankers.

He was in private practice with Dinsmore & Shohl in Cincinnati. During the early 1950s, he was elected to the Cincinnati City Council. At the age of 39, in 1954, he was appointed to the United States Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit.

In 1959, President Dwight D. Eisenhower nominated Stewart to the Supreme Court to replace Justice Harold Hitz Burton, who was retiring. He was a recess appointment in 1958 before being confirmed by the United States Senate on May 5, 1959.