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Earl Warren
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Earl Warren, 1891-1974. Chief Justice of the United States, 1954-1969. Striking 11" x 14" portrait photograph of the Chief Justice, inscribed and signed To Atlanta Chapter of U.N.A. / with best wishes for continued success / in its endeavors for Peace, Freedom and Justice. / Earl Warren and hand dated by Warren 6/23/70.
This is an excellent association photograph with an inscription that mirrors Warren's own world view: “Peace, Freedom and Justice." Warren was a member of the Board of Directors of the United Nations Association of the United States of America, to whose Atlanta chapter he has inscribed and signed this photograph.
The UNA is a nonprofit membership organization dedicated to educating, inspiring, and mobilizing Americans to support the principles and work of the United Nations, strengthening the United Nations system and promoting constructive United States leadership within it, and achieving the goals of the United Nations Charter. Its educational and humanitarian campaigns, including teaching students in urban schools, clearing minefields, and providing school-based support for children in African communities hurt by HIV / AIDS, allow people to have a strong influence at a local level.
Warren was one of the most prominent and influential chief justices in American history. He presided over a Supreme Court that outlawed school segregation in Brown v. Board of Education, using his considerable political skills to achieve unanimity among justices who had previously been split on the continued validity of the doctrine of "separate but equal.” Under Warren, the Court also imposed the rule of one person, one vote; expanded constitutional rights for criminal defendants; and found the right to privacy in a penumbra of the Bill of Rights.
Following the assassination of President John F. Kennedy, the Chief Justice chaired the Warren Commission, which concluded that Lee Harvey Oswald was the lone assassin. Warren, who was deeply affected by the assassination, delivered a moving eulogy for Kennedy in the rotunda of the United States capitol.
For a man who was in public life as long as Warren was—as governor of California, the 1948 Republican vice presidential nominee, and Chief Justice—his signed photographs are rather difficult to find. This one, in the large 11" x 14" format, is even more uncommon.
This is a formal black-and-white portrait of Warren in his judicial robe. Warren has inscribed and signed it in blue-black fountain pen. The image has a photo has a faint stain in the right margin and a few bends and surface abrasions, mostly in the margin. Overall the photo is in fine condition and would be a striking piece framed.
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