Record ID:
35592039 (Libraries Australia Authorities)
Authority type:
  • Name.
Description conventions:
  • rda
LC number:
  • n 50028322
Heading:
Birth:
  • 18910319
  • Los Angeles (Calif.)
Death:
  • 19740709
  • Washington (D.C.)
Occupations:
  • Lawyers
Notes:
  • 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)
Local system number:
  • (AuCNL)255752
  • 000000595534
  • abv00490564
Cataloguing source:
  • DLC eng rda DLC OCoLC UPB IEN
Authentication code:
  • kin