Dwight D. Eisenhower, on his appointment of Earl Warren as Chief Justice of the Supreme Court.
(Source: NYTimes, PBS/The Court and Democracy,)
Earl Warren was born on March 19, 1891 in Los Angeles. The former Governor of California, he was appointed Chief Justice by Eisenhower in 1953 and led the Court in the landmark Brown V Board of Education decision that year.
Warren died on July 9, 1974. (New York Times obituary.)
