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The Honorable Earl Warren, Chief Justice of
the United States, was born in Los Angeles, Calif., on March 19,
1891. He graduated from the University of California with B.L.
and J.D. degrees, and was admitted to the California bar in 1914.
Chief Justice Warren was attorney general of California from 1939
to 1943. From 1943 to 1953 he was Governor of California and in
September 1953 was appointed by President Eisenhower to be the
Chief Justice of the United States.
The Honorable Richard B. Russell was born
in Winder, Ca., on November 2, 1897. He received his B.L. degree
from the University of Georgia in 1918 and his LL.B. from Mercer
University in 1957. Senator Russell commenced the practice of
law in Winder, Ca., in 1918, became county attorney for Barrow
County, Ca., and was a member of the Georgia House of Representatives
from 1921 to 1931. He was Governor of Georgia from 1931 to 1933,
was elected to the US. Senate in January 1933 to fill a vacancy,
and has been Senator from Georgia continuously since that date.
The Honorable John Sherman Cooper was born
in Somerset, Ky., on August 23, 1901. He attended Center College,
Kentucky, received his A.B. degree from Yale College in 1923,
and attended Harvard Law School from 1923 to 1925. Senator Cooper
has been a member of the House of Representatives of the Kentucky
General Assembly, a county judge and circuit judge in Kentucky,
and is now a member of the U.S. Senate, where he has served, though
not continuously, for 12 years. He was a delegate to the Fifth,
Sixth, and Seventh Sessions of the General Assembly of the United
Nations, an advisor to the Secretary of State in 1950 at meetings
of the North Atlantic Treaty Organization, and Ambassador to India
and Nepal in 1955-56. He served in the 3d U.S. Army in World War
II in Europe, and after the war headed the reorganization of the
German judicial system in Bavaria.
The Honorable Hale Boggs was born in Long
Beach, Miss., on February 15, 1914. He graduated from Tulane University
with a B.A. degree in 1935 and received his LL.B. in 1937. He
was admitted to the Louisiana bar in 1937 and practiced law in
New Orleans. Representative Boggs was elected to the 77th Congress
of the United States and in World War II was an officer of the
US. Naval Reserve and of the Maritime Service. He has been a Member
of Congress since 1946 when he was elected to represent the Second
District, State of Louisiana, in the 80th Congress, and he is
currently the majority whip for the Democratic Party in the House
of Representatives.
The Honorable Gerald R. Ford was born in Omaha,
Nebr., on July 14, 1913. He graduated from the University of Michigan
with a B.A. degree in 1935 and from Yale University Law School
with an LL.B. degree in 1941. Representative Ford was admitted
to the Michigan bar in 1941. He was first elected to Congress
in 1948 and has been reelected to each succeeding Congress. He
served 47 months in the U.S. Navy during World War II. Representative
Ford was elected in January 1963 the chairman of the House Republican
Conference.
The Honorable Allen W. Dulles was born in
Watertown, N.Y., on April 7, 1893. He received his B.A. degree
from Princeton in 1914, his M.A. in 1916, his LL.B. from George
Washington University in 1926, and LL.D. degrees. Mr.
Dulles entered the diplomatic service of the
United States in 1916 and resigned in 1926 to take up law practice
in New York City. In 1953 Mr. Dulles was appointed Director of
Central Intelligence and served in that capacity until 1961.
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