Chief Justice and California Governor Earl Warren is born in Los Angeles, California. Warren, the son of Scandinavian immigrants, volunteered for service in World War I and later became District Attorney and Governor of California. In 1953 President Eisenhower nominated Warren to become Chief Justice of the U.S. Supreme Court, where he oversaw the Brown v. Board of Education and many other groundbreaking cases on civil rights and liberties.
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