Editing Potter Stewart (section)

==Early life and education==
Stewart was born in [[Jackson, Michigan|Jackson]], Michigan in 1915, while his family was on vacation. He was the son of Harriett L. (Potter) and [[James Garfield Stewart]]. His father, a prominent [[Republican Party (United States)|Republican]] from [[Cincinnati]], [[Ohio]], served as [[mayor of Cincinnati]] for nine years and was later a justice of the [[Ohio Supreme Court]].<ref name="Cushman2012">{{cite book|author=Clare Cushman|title=The Supreme Court Justices: Illustrated Biographies, 1789–2012|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=QKN2AwAAQBAJ&pg=PA418|date=11 December 2012|publisher=SAGE Publications|isbn=978-1-4522-3534-9|pages=418}}</ref>

Stewart earned an academic scholarship to attend the prestigious [[Hotchkiss School]], where he graduated in 1933. He then went on to [[Yale University]], where he was a member of [[Delta Kappa Epsilon]] (Phi chapter) and [[Skull and Bones]],<ref name="Tap Day 1936">{{cite news | title=Six Yale Societies Elect 90 Members: Book and Snake and Berzilius Again Fill Their Ranks as University Groups. Quotas Chosen in an Hour: Tapping Is Done in the Traditional and Picturesque Harkness Court Ceremony. | work=[[The New York Times]] | date=May 8, 1936 | url=https://query.nytimes.com/gst/abstract.html?res=9A05E3DE123AE33BBC4053DFB366838D629EDE | access-date=January 2, 2015 | page=18 | archive-date=March 5, 2016 | archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160305083425/http://query.nytimes.com/gst/abstract.html?res=9A05E3DE123AE33BBC4053DFB366838D629EDE | url-status=live }}</ref> graduating [[Phi Beta Kappa]] in 1937 with a [[Bachelor of Arts]] degree ''[[cum laude]]''. He served as chairman of the ''[[Yale Daily News]]''. After studying international law at the [[University of Cambridge]] in England for a year, Stewart enrolled at [[Yale Law School]] where he graduated ''[[cum laude]]'' in 1941 with a [[Bachelor of Laws]]. While at Yale Law School, he was an editor of the ''[[Yale Law Journal]]'' and a member of [[Phi Delta Phi]]. Other members of that era included [[Gerald R. Ford]], [[Peter H. Dominick]], [[Walter Lord]], [[William Scranton]], [[R.&nbsp;Sargent Shriver]], [[Cyrus R. Vance]], and [[Byron R. White]]. The last would later become his colleague on the [[United States Supreme Court]].

Stewart served in [[World War II]] as a member of the [[United States Navy Reserve|U.S. Naval Reserve]] aboard oil tankers from 1941 to 1945, attaining the rank of [[Lieutenant (junior grade)|lieutenant junior grade]].<ref>{{Cite web |title=Potter Stewart (Jan. 23, 1915 - Dec. 7, 1985) » Supreme Court of Ohio |url=https://www.supremecourt.ohio.gov/courts/judicial-system/supreme-court-of-ohio/mjc/interest/grand-concourse/potter-stewart/ |access-date=2024-12-02 |website=www.supremecourt.ohio.gov}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web |title=Stewart, Potter {{!}} Federal Judicial Center |url=https://www.fjc.gov/history/judges/stewart-potter |access-date=2024-12-02 |website=www.fjc.gov}}</ref> In 1943, he married Mary Ann Bertles in a ceremony at [[Bruton Parish Church|Bruton Episcopal Church]] in [[Williamsburg, Virginia]] (at which his brother Zeph{{mdash}}also an initiate of [[Delta Kappa Epsilon]] and [[Skull and Bones]], and eventually a professor of classics at Harvard{{mdash}}was the best man). They eventually had a daughter: Harriet (Virkstis), and two sons: Potter Jr. and David. He was in private practice with [[Dinsmore & Shohl]] in Cincinnati. During the early 1950s, he was elected to the Cincinnati City Council.