Earl Warren Jurist
- Gender: Male
- Citizenship: United States
- Born: Mar 19, 1891
- Died: Jul 9, 1974
Earl Warren was an American jurist and politician, who served as the 30th Governor of California and later the 14th Chief Justice of the United States.
He is best known for the decisions of the Warren Court, which ended school segregation and transformed many areas of American law, especially regarding the rights of the accused, ending public school-sponsored prayers, and requiring "one man-one vote" rules of apportionment of Congressional districts. He made the Supreme Court a power center on a more even basis with Congress and the Presidency, especially through four landmark decisions: Brown v. Board of Education, Gideon v. Wainwright, Reynolds v. Sims, and Miranda v. Arizona.
Warren is one of only two people to be elected Governor of California three times, the other being Jerry Brown. Before holding these positions, he was the District Attorney for Alameda County, California, and the Attorney General of California.
Warren was also the nominee for Vice President of the Republican Party in 1948, and he chaired the Warren Commission, which was formed to investigate the 1963 assassination of President John F. Kennedy.
I always turn to the sports pages first, which records people's accomplishments. The front page has nothing but man's failures.
sports
In these days, it is doubtful that any child may reasonably be expected to succeed in life if he is denied the opportunity of an education.
education
We conclude that in the field of public education the doctrine of 'separate but equal' has no place.
education
The most tragic paradox of our time is to be found in the failure of nation-states to recognize the imperatives of internationalism.
failure & patriotism
Ben Franklin may have discovered electricity- but it is the man who invented the meter who made the money.
money
All provisions of federal, state or local law requiring or permitting discrimination in public education must yield.
education