Earl Warren
Earl Warren, who was born in Los Angeles in 1891, became a lawyer, district attorney and California attorney general before being elected governor of California in 1942.  A Republican, he served three terms as governor.  In 1948, he was a Republican nominee for vice-president, and made a run for the presidential nomination in 1952.  The following year, President Eisenhower nominated him to be Chief Justice of the Supreme Court.   Chief Justice Warren presided over a court that ended Jim Crow segregation and expanded rights – and made him the subject of an "Impeach Earl Warren" campaign in the South.  He retired from the court in 1969. 
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