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Warren E. Burger
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Warren Earl Burger, 1907-1995. Chief Justice of the United States, 1969-1986. Extra fine condition, bold signature, Warren E Burger, clipped from a letter.
Burger, a native of St. Paul, Minnesota, worked his way through college and law school. After practicing law for more than twenty years, he served as an Assistant Attorney General under President Dwight D. Eisenhower, who appointed him to the United States Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit in 1956. Burger served as a judge of the D.C. Circuit until President Richard Nixon named him to to replace the retiring Earl Warren as Chief Justice in 1969.
Burger, a conservative, strongly advocated strict construction of the Constitution and voted to limit many of the more liberal Warren Court’s decisions. He was not, however, an automatic conservative vote. He approved busing as a remedy for school segregation, for example, and spoke for a unanimous Supreme Court in upholding a subpoena for Nixon’s Oval Office tape recordings, which revealed Nixon’s role in covering up the Watergate burglary and ultimately forced Nixon’s resignation in 1974.
After he retired from the Court, Burger chaired the Commission for the Bicentennial of the United States Constitution.
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