this is good law, I wonder whether he will have the courage to vote with us in spite of his religion." Although Butler dissented in both Buck and Palko, he did not write a dissenting opinion in either case; the practice of a Justice's noting a dissent without opinion was much more common then than it would be in the later 20th and early 21st centuries. Another consequential dissent was from the opinion expressed in Olmstead v. United States, which upheld federal wiretapping. He took an expansive view of 4th Amendment protections. Death and legacy On November 15, 1939, Butler went into a Washington, D.C., hospital for "a minor ailment" but died in the early morning hours of November 16, at the age of 73 while still on the Court. He was the last serving Supreme Court Justice appointed by President Harding. He is buried in Calvary Cemetery in St. Paul. The bulk of his and his family's collected papers are with the Minnesota Historical Society. Other papers are collected elsewhere. Pierce Butler Route in Saint Paul, Minnesota, is named in honor of Butler. See also List of justices of the Supreme Court of the United States List of law clerks of the Supreme Court of the United States (Seat 10) List of United States Supreme Court justices by time in office List of United States Supreme Court cases by the Hughes Court List of United States Supreme Court cases by the Taft Court References Sources Further reading Access via Proquest Digital Dissertations. Paper AAI3357971. External links 1866 births 1939 deaths 20th-century American judges American people of Irish descent Carleton College alumni Minnesota Democrats Minnesota lawyers People from Dakota County, Minnesota United States federal judges appointed by Warren G. Harding Justices of the Supreme Court of the United States United States federal judges admitted to the practice of law by reading law Catholics from Minnesota Old Right (United States)