"Supreme Court Chief Justice" Earl Warren Hand Signed FDC Todd Mueller COA

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Earl Warren
(March 19, 1891 – July 9, 1974) was an American jurist and politician who served as the 14th
Chief Justice of the United States
(1953–1969) and earlier as the 30th
Governor of California
(1943–1953). The
Warren Court
presided over a major shift in constitutional jurisprudence, with Warren writing the majority opinions in landmark cases such as
Brown v. Board of Education
,
Reynolds v. Sims
, and
Miranda v. Arizona
. Warren also led the
Warren Commission
, a
presidential commission
that investigated the 1963
assassination of President John F. Kennedy
. Warren was born in 1891 in
Los Angeles
and was raised in
Bakersfield, California
. After graduating from the law program at the
University of California, Berkeley
, he began a legal career in
Oakland
. He was hired as a deputy district attorney for
Alameda County
in 1920 and was appointed district attorney in 1925. He emerged as a leader of the state
Republican Party
and won election as the
Attorney General of California
in 1938. In that position, he played a role in the
forced removal and internment
of over 100,000
Japanese Americans
during
World War II
. In the
1942 California gubernatorial election
, Warren defeated incumbent
Democratic
governor
Culbert Olson
. He would serve as Governor of California until 1953, presiding over a period of major growth for the state. Warren served as
Thomas E. Dewey
's running mate in the
1948 presidential election
, but Dewey lost the election to incumbent President
Harry S. Truman
. Warren sought the Republican nomination in the
1952 presidential election
, but the party nominated General
Dwight D. Eisenhower
. After Eisenhower won election as president, he appointed Warren as Chief Justice. Warren helped arrange a unanimous decision in
Brown v. Board of Education
, which ruled that
racial segregation
in public schools was unconstitutional. After
Brown
, the Warren Court would continue to issue rulings that helped bring an end to the segregationist
Jim Crow laws
that were prevalent throughout the South. In
Heart of Atlanta Motel, Inc. v. United States
, the Court upheld the
Civil Rights Act of 1964
, a federal law that prohibits racial segregation in public institutions and
public accommodations
. In the 1960s, the Warren Court handed down several landmark rulings that transformed
criminal procedure
,
redistricting
, and other areas of the law. Many of the Court's decisions
incorporated
the
Bill of Rights
, making the protections of the Bill of Rights apply to state and local governments.
Gideon v. Wainwright
established a criminal defendant's right to an attorney in felony cases, while
Miranda v. Arizona
required police officers to give a
warning
to criminal suspects in police custody.
Reynolds v. Sims
established that all state legislative districts must be of roughly equal population, while the Court's holding in
Wesberry v. Sanders
required equal populations for congressional districts.
Griswold v. Connecticut
struck down a state law that restricted access to
contraceptives
and established a constitutional
right to privacy
. Warren announced his retirement in 1968, and was succeeded by conservative appellate judge
Warren Burger
. Though the Warren Court's rulings have received criticism from many conservatives, as well as from some other quarters, few of the Court's decisions have been overturned.