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Warren was born in Los Angeles, on March 19, 1891, and educated at the University of California.
Warren was concerned with upholding the rights of the individual, a concern that was reflected in numerous court decisions.
Warren stated in his opinion that “separate educational facilities are inherently unequal.” The ruling was later extended to areas such as public transportation.
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 Warren Earl Burger, Chief Justice, US Supreme Court
Burger spoke for the court in decisions that inaugurated busing as a tool for the racial desegregation of public schools, expanded public access to the nation's courts and enhanced women's protections against sexual discrimination.
Burger said material is obscene, and therefore not protected by the Constitution's free-speech guarantee, if it appeals to a morbid interest in sex with patently offensive depictions of sexual conduct, and on the whole has no serious literary, artistic, political or scientific value.
Burger was engulfed in controversy in 1981 over reports that the proofs of a book by John Ehrlichman, a former top aide to Nixon, said Burger in 1970 went to the White House and discussed a pending Supreme Court case with Nixon and then-Attorney General John Mitchell.
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 Warren Burger
Warren Burger was born in St. Paul, Minnesota on September 17, 1907.
In 1956, Burger was appointed to the United States Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit.
Burger was confirmed in mid-1969, and remained Chief Justice until his retirement after the conclusion of the October 1985 Term (summer 1986), longer than any other Chief Justice of the 20th century (Chief Justice Rehnquist has been Chief Justice longer, but his tenure spans two centuries).
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 Warren Earl Burger Biography | World of Criminal Justice
Warren Earl Burger served as Chief Justice of the U.S. Supreme Court from 1969 to 1986.
Burger, who had previously served as a federal appellate court judge and as assistant attorney general, was deeply committed to modernizing and streamlining the U.S. court system.
Burger's opinions established him as a leader on that court, and his reputation was furthered by a speech on the American criminal justice system that he delivered at Ripon College in 1967.
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 Arlington National Cemetery:: Historical_Information
Burger came to Washington to serve as Assistant Attorney General, Civil Division, of the Justice Department and was named by President Dwight Eisenhower to the U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia in 1955.
Burger sought to improve the administration of justice in the United States as much through reform of administrative procedures and court management and efficiency as through the more than 250 decisions he authored and the votes he cast and the cases he had brought before the court.
Burger was interred in a private ceremony, rejoining his wife in death, in Section 5, Plot 7015-2.
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 Burger, Warren Earl: West's Encyclopedia of American Law
Warren Earl Burger was a self-made man who rose from modest origins to become the fifteenth chief justice of the U. Supreme Court.
Burger was born September 17, 1907, in St. Paul, Minnestota, the fourth of seven children of Charles Burger and Katharine Schnittger Burger.
Burger began delivering newspapers at the age of nine to help with family finances.
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 Earl Warren Papers (Library of Congress)
Papers dating chiefly from Warren's appointment as chief justice and relating principally to his activities with the Supreme Court and to the various landmark decisions identified with his tenure (1953-1969) in such areas as civil rights, race relations, criminal procedure, legislative reapportionment, freedom of speech and press, and church-state relations.
The papers of Earl Warren, lawyer, attorney general and governor of California, and chief justice of the United States, were given to the Library of Congress by Warren in 1974.
Warren rose from prosecutor in Alameda County, California, to state attorney general and then governor of California before attaining national recognition as Thomas E. Dewey's running mate in the presidential election of 1948.
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Burger's generally conservative approach during his 13-year service (1956—69) on the nation's second highest court commended him to President Richard M. Nixon, who in 1969 named Burger to succeed Earl Warren as chief justice of the Supreme Court.
Burger himself took a pragmatic and accommodating stance toward controversial legal issues, and his opinions were not particularly noted either for their intellectual consistency or for their comprehensive and systematic application of legal principles.
Burger retired from the Supreme Court in 1986 to devote himself full-time to the chairmanship of the commission planning the bicentennial celebration of the U.S. constitution (1987).
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 Chief Justice Warren Burger - Search Results - MSN Encarta   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-25)
President Richard Nixon replaced retiring Chief Justice Earl Warren with Warren Earl Burger in 1969.
Burger, Warren Earl (1907-1995), American jurist and the 15th chief justice of the Supreme Court of the United States.
Warren, Earl (1891-1974), American jurist and political leader, best known as the chief justice who led the United States Supreme Court in making...
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 AllRefer.com - Warren Earl Burger (Supreme Court, Biography) - Encyclopedia
Warren Earl Burger 1907–95, American jurist, fifteenth Chief Justice of the United States (1969–86), b.
He was (1953–56) assistant attorney general in charge of the civil division of the Department of Justice before becoming judge of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia.
Appointed to head the Supreme Court by President Nixon, and perceived as a conservative and an advocate of judicial restraint, Burger was less forceful than had been expected in limiting or reversing the liberal decisions of the court headed by his predecessor Earl Warren.
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 Burger, Warren Earl - HighBeam Encyclopedia   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-25)
Burger, Warren Earl 1907-95, American jurist, fifteenth Chief Justice of the United States (1969-86), b.
He was (1953-56) assistant attorney general in charge of the civil division of the Department of Justice before becoming judge of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia.
Burger, Warren E. The Oxford Guide to the United States Government; 1/1/2001; John J. Patrick, Richard M. Pious, and Donald A. Ritchie; 502 words
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 Warren E. Burger - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Warren Earl Burger (September 17, 1906 – June 25, 1995) was Chief Justice of the United States from 1969 to 1986.
In 1937, Burger served as the eighth President of the Saint Paul Jaycees.
After he was elected, President Eisenhower appointed Burger as the Assistant Attorney General in charge of the Civil Division of the Justice Department.
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 Warren Earl Burger
Warren E. Burger was born on September 7, 1907 in Saint Paul, Minnesota.
By far one of the most controversial cases that Warren Burger undertook as Supreme Court Chief Justice was Roe vs. Wade, a case where he voted with the majority to recognize a woman’s right to an abortion.
Although Warren Burger made many excellent rulings while in the Supreme Court he will no doubt be held accountable for his vote and his choice in legalizing abortion.
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Warren Earl Burger was born in St. Paul, Minnesota.
Burger, a conservative and an advocate of judicial restraint, was appointed chief justice of the United States Supreme Court in 1969 by President Richard Nixon.
In 1986 Burger was succeeded by William Rehnquist.
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 Presidential Medal of Freedom Recipient Supreme Court Chief Justice Warren E. Burger
Chief Justice Burger stepped down from the Supreme Court to lead our country in a bicentennial celebration of the Constitution—one more act of devotion and distinction by Warren Earl Burger to the Republic he loves and serves so well.
Burger, who died June 25, was the nation's 15th chief justice, serving for 17 years, the longest tenure this century.
In 1955, President Eisenhower appointed Burger to the U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia.
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 Earl Warren Biography (Jurist/Political Figure) — FactMonster.com   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-25)
Earl Warren was a Republican attorney and politician who served as Chief Justice of the United States Supreme Court during a period of expanding civil rights and civil liberties.
Warren was raised in central California and earned his undergraduate and law degrees from the University of California at Berkeley.
Earl Warren - Warren, Earl, 1891–1974, American public official and 14th Chief Justice of the United States...
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 MNHS.ORG | Library | History Topics | Warren E. Burger
On June 23, 1969, Warren E. Burger took the oath as the chief justice of the U.S. Supreme Court.
Warren Earl Burger was born in St. Paul on September 17, 1907, and in 1931 earned his LL.B. from the St. Paul College of Law (now the William Mitchell College of Law).
This is the transcript of the Senate Committee on the Judiciary hearing on the nomination of Burger for chief justice of the U.S. Supreme Court.
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 AllRefer.com - Earl Warren (Supreme Court, Biography) - Encyclopedia
Earl Warren 1891–1974, American public official and 14th Chief Justice of the United States (1953–69), b.
One of the most dynamic of Chief Justices, Warren led the court toward a number of landmark decisions in the fields of civil rights and individual liberties.
Among these were the unanimous 1954 decision, written by Warren, ending segregation in the nation's schools (see Brown v.
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 UNICOR Online | About UNICOR | History | Dedication
Warren Burger believed in swift, certain punishment, but he also believed in giving offenders an opportunity to reform themselves.
A high-water mark in the Burger effort to stimulate an informed debate about the appropriate role of prison industries in society was the Conference at Wingspread (a conference center in Racine, Wisconsin) in February 1985.
Burger cited the Scandinavian governments as role models in recognizing that almost all incarcerated individuals eventually return to society and should be made literate and trained in meaningful jobs.
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 FORMER CHIEF JUSTICE BERGER DIES PICKED AS A CONSERVATIVE, HE UPHELD LIBERAL IDEAS
Warren Earl Burger, whose chiseled features and formidable mane of white hair made him the very model of an idealized chief justice, may be best remembered for leading the counter-revolution that wasn't.
Burger, a conservative jurist who died Sunday at the age of 87 from congestive heart failure, and his colleagues on the Burger Court were widely expected to roll back the liberal doctrines of the Earl Warren Court that preceded them.
After his retirement from the court in 1986, Burger worked as unpaid chairman of the Commission on the Bicentennial of the United States Constitution, organizing the celebrations of the Constitution's 200th anniversary in 1987 and the Bill of Right's 200th anniversary in 1989.
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Founded by Chief Justice Warren Burger in 1974, the Society has compiled more than 400 full-text Supreme Court arguments, the United States...
Burger, Warren E. Significant Supreme Court Opinions of the Honorable Warren E. Burger, Chief Justice of the United States.
Warren Earl Burger Chief Justice of the United States Supreme Court...
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 TIME.com: WARREN BURGER: THE PRAIRIE WIND -- Jul 10, 1995 -- Page 1
Those somber judicial robes that cloaked the broad shoulders of Warren Earl Burger for 17 years as Chief Justice of the United States never really disguised the fact that underneath he was an exuberant prairie yeoman--and proud of it.
Burger was surprised and somewhat mystified when Richard Nixon plucked him off the appeals court to be Chief Justice.
When Burger decided to leave the court and head the Bicentennial Commission of the U.S. Constitution, court scholars were astounded, still not understanding Burger's romantic realism.
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 uExpress.com: Covering The Courts by James J. Kilpatrick -- (05/25/2005) 'FROM THEN ON WE GREW APART'
Upon retirement he joined John Marshall, Roger Taney and Earl Warren in the ranks of the most reviled justices ever to serve on the high court.
In their teenage years they were best pals, though Burger always was the dominant partner.
In 1954, Burger became a federal judge in the District of Columbia.
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