Earl Warren

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Earl Warren : biography

March 19, 1891 – July 9, 1974

Earl Warren (March 19, 1891 – July 9, 1974) was an American jurist and politician who served as the 14th Chief Justice of the United States (1953–1969) and the 30th Governor of California.

He is known both for his efforts on behalf of Japanese internment during World War II as well as the decisions of the Warren Court, which ended school segregation and transformed many areas of American law, especially regarding the rights of the accused, ending public-school-sponsored prayer, and requiring "one-man-one vote" rules of apportionment. He made the Court a power center on a more even base with Congress and the presidency especially through four landmark decisions: Brown v. Board of Education (1954), Gideon v. Wainwright (1963), Reynolds v. Sims (1964), and Miranda v. Arizona (1966).

Warren is one of only two people to be elected Governor of California three times, the other being Jerry Brown. Before holding these positions, he was a district attorney for Alameda County, California, and Attorney General of California.

Alongside that of John Marshall, Warren’s tenure as Chief Justice is often seen as a high point of the power of the American judicial branch.

Electoral history

Earl Warren electoral history

California Republican presidential primary, 1936:

  • Earl Warren – 350,917 (57.43%)
  • Alf Landon – 260,170 (42.58%)

1936 Republican presidential primaries:

  • William Edgar Borah – 1,478,676 (44.48%)
  • Alf Landon – 729,908 (21.96%)
  • Frank Knox – 527,054 (15.85%)
  • Earl Warren – 350,917 (10.56%)
  • Stephen A. Day – 155,732 (4.69%)
  • Warren Green – 44,518 (1.34%)

Republican primary for Governor of California, 1942:

  • Earl Warren – 635,230 (94.23%)
  • Nathan T. Porter – 15,604 (2.32%)
  • William E. Riker – 10,004 (1.48%)
  • Fred Dyster – 9,824 (1.46%)
  • Culbert Olson (inc.) (write-in) – 3,504 (0.52%)

Democratic primary for Governor of California, 1942:

  • Culbert Olson (inc.) – 513,244 (51.98%)
  • Earl Warren – 404,778 (41.00%)
  • Roy G. Owens – 50,780 (5.14%)
  • Nathan T. Porter – 11,302 (1.15%)
  • Alonzo J. Riggs – 7,231 (0.73%)

California gubernatorial election, 1942:

  • Earl Warren (R) – 1,275,237 (57.07%)
  • Culbert Olson (D) (inc.) – 932,995 (41.75%)

California Republican presidential primary, 1944

  • Earl Warren – 594,439 (100.00%)

1944 Republican presidential primaries:

  • Douglas MacArthur – 662,127 (28.94%)
  • Earl Warren – 594,439 (25.99%)
  • John W. Bricker – 366,444 (16.02%)
  • Thomas E. Dewey – 278,727 (12.18%)
  • W. Chapman Revercomb – 91,602 (4.00%)
  • Unpledged – 87,834 (3.84%)
  • Harold Stassen – 67,508 (2.95%)
  • Riley A. Bender – 37,575 (1.64%)
  • Charles A. Christopherson – 33,497 (1.46%)
  • Wendell Willkie – 27,097 (1.19%)

Republican primary for Governor of California, 1946:

  • Earl Warren (inc.) – 774,302 (91.10%)
  • Robert W. Kenny – 70,331 (8.27%)

Democratic primary for Governor of California, 1946:

  • Earl Warren (inc.) – 593,180 (51.93%)
  • Robert W. Kenny – 530,968 (46.49%)

California gubernatorial election, 1946:

  • Earl Warren (R, D) (inc.) – 2,344,542 (91.64%)
  • Henry R. Schmidt (Prohibition) – 180,579 (7.06%)
  • Archie Brown (Communist) – 22,606 (0.88%)
  • James Roosevelt (D) (write-in) – 3,210 (0.13%)

1948 Republican presidential primaries:

  • Earl Warren – 771,295 (26.99%)
  • Harold Stassen – 627,321 (21.96%)
  • Robert Taft – 464,741 (16.27%)
  • Thomas E. Dewey – 330,799 (11.58%)
  • Riley A. Bender – 324,029 (11.34%)
  • Douglas MacArthur – 87,839 (3.07%)
  • Leverett Saltonstall – 72,191 (2.53%)
  • Herbert E. Hitchcock – 45,463 (1.59%)
  • Edward Martin – 45,072 (1.58%)
  • Unpledged – 28,854 (1.01%)
  • Arthur H. Vandenberg – 18,924 (0.66%)
  • Dwight D. Eisenhower – 5,014 (0.18%)
  • Harry S. Truman – 4,907 (0.17%)
  • Henry A. Wallace – 1,452 (0.05%)
  • Joseph William Martin, Jr. – 974 (0.03%)
  • Alfred E. Driscoll – 44 (0.00%)
  • Others – 5,939 (0.21%)

1948 Republican National Convention (Presidential tally)

  • Thomas E. Dewey – 1,094 (60.74%)
  • Robert Taft – 274 (15.21%)
  • Harold Stassen – 157 (8.72%)
  • Arthur H. Vandenberg – 62 (3.44%)
  • Earl Warren – 59 (3.28%)
  • Dwight H. Green – 56 (3.11%)
  • Alfred E. Driscoll – 35 (1.94%)
  • Raymond E. Baldwin – 19 (1.06%)
  • Joseph William Martin, Jr. – 18 (1.00%)
  • B. Carroll Reece – 15 (0.83%)
  • Douglas MacArthur – 11 (0.61%)
  • Everett Dirksen – 1 (0.06%)

1948 Republican National Convention (Vice Presidential tally):

  • Earl Warren – 1,094 (100.00%)

United States presidential election, 1948

  • Harry S. Truman/Alben W. Barkley (D) – 24,179,347 (49.6%) and 303 electoral votes (28 states carried)
  • Thomas E. Dewey/Earl Warren (R) – 21,991,292 (45.1%) and 189 electoral votes (16 states carried)
  • Strom Thurmond/Fielding L. Wright (Dixiecrat) – 1,175,930 (2.4%) and 39 electoral votes (4 states carried)
  • Henry A. Wallace/Glen H. Taylor (Progressive) – 1,157,328 (2.4%)

California gubernatorial election, 1950:

  • Earl Warren (R) (inc.) – 2,461,754 (64.85%)
  • James Roosevelt (D) – 1,333,856 (35.14%)

1952 Republican presidential primaries:

  • Robert Taft – 2,794,736 (35.84%)
  • Dwight D. Eisenhower – 2,050,708 (26.30%)
  • Earl Warren – 1,349,036 (17.30%)
  • Harold Stassen – 881,702 (11.31%)
  • Thomas H. Werdel – 521,110 (6.68%)
  • George T. Mickelson – 63,879 (0.82%)
  • Douglas MacArthur – 44,209 (0.57%)
  • Grant A. Ritter – 26,208 (0.34%)
  • Edward C. Slettedahl – 22,712 (0.29%)
  • Riley A. Bender – 22,321 (0.29%)
  • Mary E. Kenny – 10,411 (0.13%)
  • Wayne Morse – 7,105 (0.09%)
  • Perry J. Stearns – 2,925 (0.04%)
  • William R. Schneider – 580 (0.01%)

1952 Republican National Convention (1st ballot)

  • Dwight D. Eisenhower – 595
  • Robert Taft – 500
  • Earl Warren – 81
  • Harold Stassen – 20
  • Douglas MacArthur – 10

1952 Republican National Convention (2nd ballot)

  • Dwight D. Eisenhower – 845
  • Robert Taft – 280
  • Earl Warren – 77
  • Douglas MacArthur – 4