WHITE, JOHN GRISWOLD (10 Aug. 1845-26 Aug. 1928), lawyer and bibliophile, was born in Cleveland to lawyer Bushnell White and Elizabeth Brainard (Clark)White. In 1865 White graduated from Western Reserve College and was admitted to the bar in 1868. He went into partnership with Robt. E. Mix and Judge Conway W. Noble in 1870.
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WHITE, PAUL DUNBAR (20 Oct. 1917 - 22 Sept. 1997), was a judge and city law director under Mayor CARL B. STOKES. He was born in LaGrange, KY, to Florence Harris and Isham H. White, a Methodist minister. He earned his B.A. from Kentucky State College in 1940 while playing on the Negro Collegiate National Championship football team.
WHITTLESEY, ELISHA (19 Oct. 1783-7 Jan. 1863), lawyer and politician, was born in Litchfield County, Conn., son of John and Mary Beale Whittlesey.
WILLIAMSON, SAMUEL (1772-8 Sept. 1834), businessman; SAMUEL WILLIAMSON, JR. (1808-14 Jan. 1884), lawyer, public official, and railroad director; and SAMUEL E. WILLIAMSON (1844-21 Feb. 1903), lawyer, judge, and railroad counsel, comprise 3 generations of a distinguished Cleveland family.
WILLSON, HIRAM V. (Apr. 1808-11 Nov. 1866), lawyer and first judge of the Northern District Court of Ohio, was born in Madison County, N.Y., graduated from Hamilton College in 1832, studied law with Jared Willson in Canandaigua, N.Y. and Francis Scott Key in Washington, D.C., and initially supported himself as a teacher.
WOLDMAN, ALBERT A. (1 Jan. 1897-30 Dec. 1971), lawyer and CUYAHOGA COUNTY JUVENILE COURT judge, was born in Russia to Isadore and Gertrude (Kudish) Woldman. He came to Cleveland with his family at 18 months. Woldman graduated with an A.B.
ZELMAN V. SIMMONS-HARRIS was a landmark Supreme Court case upholding, in a 5-4 decision announced on June 27, 2002, the constitutionality of an Ohio law providing vouchers to Cleveland students to attend the public or private, including parochial, schools of their choice.