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Earl Warren
“He was like an Old Testament prophet…” The words of Ed Cray, as he describes, in his book Chief Justice, the character of Earl Warren. ...
At an early age, Earl Warren was implanted with good morals and truths about life. ... His parents, Matt and Chrystal Warren, where hard working, old-fashioned people that pursued the American dream. ... Earl’s father was always stern and raised his children well. The signs of these morals and truths appear later in Earl’s life, where it’s those morals that change the course of America. Warren attended the University of California at Berkeley, where he majored in political science for three years, before entering the USB’s school of jurisprudence. On May 14, 1915, Warren was admitted to the California bar. ...
Following the admittance to the California bar, Warren started his career working in a private law office. ... During his fourteen years as district attorney, Warren developed a reputation as a crime fighter (2). ... ” From 1934 to 1936 Warren served as chairman of the Republican state central committee. ... During his term as attorney general, Warren made a mistake, he later apologized for and learned from, that would serve as the basis for his decisions in later years. ...
In 1942 Warren was elected governor of California. ... Warren was constantly engaged in expanding public services to accommodate the swelling population (1). ... Earl Warren is the only person to have been elected to the governorship of California for three successive terms. ...
Following Warren’s success as governor of California, he was chosen as a running mate of Thomas E. ... On the next round for election, in 1952, Warren made a bid for his party’s presidential nomination. At the Republican National Convention that July, the California delegation, which Warren led, voted at an important moment to seat delegates supporting Dwight D. ... Warren campaigned for the General in California that fall. ... Following the election of Eisenhower, the new president promised Warren the first Supreme Court vacancy; a vacancy that would not be waited long for. Chief Justice Fred Vinson died early September of 1953, and Eisenhower appointed Earl Warren Chief Justice of the Supreme Court on September 30. ... All of these traits that Warren held would soon be put to the test as a swarm of cases soon came into place, which challenged the legality of racial segregation in public schools. ... The Court, under Chief Justice Earl Warren, had to make its decision based not on whether or not the authors of the Fourteenth Amendment had desegregated schools in mind when they wrote the amendment in 1868, but based on whether or not desegregated schools deprived black children of equal protection of the law when the case was decided, in 1954.
Approximate Word count = 2202
Approximate Pages = 8.8
(250 words per page double spaced)
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