Earl Warren, JD Biography
- Title:
- 14th Chief Justice of the US Supreme Court
- Position:
- None Found to the question "Should the Words “under God” Be in the US Pledge of Allegiance?"
- Reasoning:
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No position found as of Jan. 20, 2011
- Involvement and Affiliations:
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- 14th Chief Justice of the US Supreme Court, Oct. 5, 1953-June 23, 1969
- Chairman, President’s Commission on the Assassination of President Kennedy (comonly known as the “Warren Commission”), Nov. 29, 1963-Sep. 24, 1964
- Republican candidate for US Vice President, 1948
- State Governor, CA, 1943-1953
- Delegate to the Republican National Convention, 1944
- State Attorney General, CA, 1939-1943
- District Attorney, Alameda County, CA, 1925-1939
- Chief Deputy District Attorney, Alameda County, CA, 1923-1925
- Deputy District Attorney, Alameda County, CA, 1920-1923
- Deputy City Attorney, Oakland, CA, 1919-1920
- Clerk, Assembly Judiciary Committee, CA Legislature, 1919
- First Lieutenant, US Army, 1917-1918
- Private practice, San Francisco and Oakland, CA, 1914-1917
- Admitted to the bar, CA, May 14, 1915
- Former railroad worker
- Education:
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- JD, University of California at Berkeley – Boalt Hall School of Law, 1914
- BA, Political Science, University of California at Berkeley, 1912
- Other:
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- Born: Mar. 19, 1891, in Los Angeles, CA
- Died: July 9, 1974, in Washington, DC
- Posthumously inducted into the California Hall of Fame by Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger and First Lady Maria Shriver, 2007
- Posthumously awarded the Presidential Medal of Freedom, 1981
- First outgoing Chief Justice of the US Supreme Court to administer the oaths of office to an incoming Chief Justice, June 23, 1969
- Presided over the swearing in ceremonies of US Presidents Dwight D. Eisenhower (1957), John F. Kennedy (1961), Lyndon B. Johnson (1965) and Richard M. Nixon (1969)
- Appointed to the US Supreme Court by US President Dwight D. Eisenhower
- Only governor in CA history to win an election unopposed, having won the Democratic, Republican, and Progressive primaries in 1946
- Only CA governor elected to three terms
- Son of Norwegian immigrant Erik Methias Warren and Swedish immigrant Christine Hernlund Warren
- Married Swedish immigrant Nina Palmquist Meyers, Oakland, CA, Oct. 14, 1925
- Children: James (adopted son from Ms. Meyer’s first marriage), Virginia, Earl, Jr., Dorothy, Nina (also known as Honeybear), Robert
- Buried at Arlington National Cemetery, VA, Section 21, Grave S-32, July 12, 1974
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