Warren, Earl, 1891-1974

LC control no.	n 50028322
Descriptive conventions	rda
Personal name heading	Warren, Earl, 1891-1974 *Browse this term in* LC Authorities or the LC Catalog
Birth date	1891-03-19
Death date	1974-07-09
Place of birth	Los Angeles (Calif.)
Place of death	Washington (D.C.)
Affiliation	California. Office of the Attorney General California. Governor United States. Supreme Court
Profession or occupation	Lawyers
Found in	Stone, I. Earl Warren, a great American story, 1948. Find A Grave, via WWW, March 3, 2014 (Earl Warren; United States Supreme Court Chief Justice; born in Los Angeles, California on March 19, 1891; he received a bachelor of laws degree from the University of California in 1912, then became a deputy district attorney in Alameda County; he was elected district attorney of the county in 1925; Warren served as attorney general of California from 1939-1943 and as Governor of California from 1943-1953; after the war, Warren participated in Republican politics at the national level, serving as Thomas Dewey's vice presidential running mate in 1948; President Dwight D. Eisenhower nominated Warren to the post of Chief Justice of the United States in 1953; the year after he became Chief Justice, Warren wrote for a unanimous court in banning segregation in the nation's schools in the landmark ruling in Brown v. Board of Education; in 1963, the "Warren Commission" was formed by President Lyndon Johnson to to determine if the assassination of President John F. Kennedy was something more than a one-man undertaking by Lee Harvey Oswald; Warren retired from the bench in 1969 and died on July 9, 1974 in Washington D.C. at age 83) Eisenhower vs. Warren, 2018: ECIP summary (bitter feud between President Dwight D. Eisenhower and Chief Justice Earl Warren framed the tumultuous future of the modern civil rights movement)
Associated language	eng