Souter grew up in Weare and returned to New Hampshire after college to practice law. He later joined the state’s Department of Justice and rose through the ranks to become attorney general in 1976.

Much has been written about the life and accomplishments of New Hampshire’s David Souter, retired Supreme Court justice and a warm and friendly man. I encountered him due to our common connections to ...

Justice David Souter, a quiet and iconoclastic jurist who spent nearly two decades on the United States Supreme Court from 1990 to 2009, has died at age 85. The New Hampshire-born attorney was ...

He was 85. The court’s announcement did not list a cause of death but said Souter “died peacefully” at home in New Hampshire, where he has lived since stepping down from the court in 2009.