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1891-1974. US jurist and chief justice of the
US Supreme Court 1953-69. He served as
governor of California 1943-53. As chief
justice, he presided over a moderately
liberal court, taking a stand against racial
discrimination and ruling that segregation in
schools was unconstitutional. He headed the
commission that investigated 1963-64
President Kennedy's assassination. Born in
Los Angeles, Warren graduated from the
University of California at Berkeley 1914 and
practiced law in the San Francisco area. He
became active in the Republican party and in
1938 was appointed California's attorney
general, which paved the way for the
governorship. He was appointed to the Supreme
Court by President Eisenhower. His most
important ruling was in Brown v Board of
Education 1954, in which the Court
unanimously ruled against segregation in
public schools and made it illegal to
classify races for discrimination purposes.
The Warren Court oversaw the reapportionment
by population of many election districts in
cases such as Reynolds v Sims 1964. Other
rulings involved individual rights,
especially in criminal procedures, as in
Miranda v Arizona 1966, which ruled in favor
of a defendant being informed of his or her
rights at the time of arrest.