Earl Warren

Examples of Earl Warren in the following topics:

• The Warren Court

  • The Warren Court (1953-1969), or the Supreme Court of the United States during the period when Earl Warren served as Chief Justice, declared a number of critical cases that expanded civil rights, civil liberties, judicial power, and the federal power in dramatic ways.
  • The Warren Court refers to the Supreme Court of the United States between 1953 and 1969, when Earl Warren served as Chief Justice.
  • Warren's priority on fairness shaped other major decisions.
  • In Warren's California, Los Angeles County had only one state senator.
  • The Supreme Court in 1953, with Chief Justice Earl Warren sitting center.

• Battles in the Courts and Congress

  • In 1986, during his second term, the President Reagan elevated Justice William Rehnquist to succeed outgoing Chief Justice Warren Burger and named Antonin Scalia to occupy the seat left by Rehnquist.
  • By the end of the 1980s, a conservative majority on the Supreme Court had put an end to the perceived "activist" trend begun under the leadership of Chief Justice Earl Warren.

• The Election of 1952

  • Eisenhower, who became the candidate of the party's moderate eastern establishment, Senator Robert Taft of Ohio, the longtime leader of the GOP's conservative wing, and Governor Earl Warren of California, who appealed to Western delegates and independent voters.

• The Nixon Administration

  • He was inaugurated on January 20, 1969, sworn in by his former political rival, Chief Justice Earl Warren.

• The Lyndon B. Johnson Administration

  • Johnson created a panel headed by Chief Justice Earl Warren, known as the Warren Commission, to investigate Kennedy's assassination.

• The Brown Decision

  • Chief Justice Earl Warren convened a meeting of the justices, and presented to them the simple argument that the only reason to sustain segregation was an honest belief in the inferiority of African Americans.
  • Warren further submitted that the Court must overrule Plessy to maintain its legitimacy as an institution of liberty, and it must do so unanimously to avoid massive Southern resistance.

• Peace Overtures and the Evacuation of Philadelphia

  • The commission was headed by the Earl of Carlisle and included William Eden, a British statesman and diplomat, and George Johnstone, former Governor of West Florida.
  • Portrait of Frederick Howard, 5th Earl of Carlisle by Sir Joshua Reynolds 1769

• The Founding of Carolina

  • The most active in the colonies was Lord Anthony Ashley Cooper, the 1st Earl of Shaftsbury.
  • The Earl of Clarendon was one of eight Lords Proprietor given title to the Province of Carolina.

• Gender and Politics

  • For the most part, women confined their politics to their letters and diaries, but a few women, such as Martha Washington, Abigail Adams, and Mercy Otis Warren, entered the political arena as public figures.
  • Mercy Otis Warren was a political writer and propagandist of the American Revolution.
  • While topics such as politics and war were thought to be the province of men, Warren was an exception.
  • Prior to the American Revolution, in 1772, during a political meeting at the Warren's home, they formed the Committees of Correspondence along with Samuel Adams.
  • While politics remained the domain of men during the Revolutionary War, Mercy Otis Warren challenged this assumption.

• Postwar Politics and the Election of 1920

  • Warren Harding won the 1920 Presidential election, which was dominated by post-World War I concerns and hostility towards Wilson's policies.
  • The Republicans nominated Senator Warren G.
  • Identify the post-war campaign issues that led to the election of Warren Harding in the 1920 election.