Biography of earl warren
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Biography of earl warren...
Earl Warren
Life Story: 1891-1974
The accomplished attorney general and California governor who led the Supreme Court as Chief Justice during a 16-year period of many Constitutional decisions protecting individual rights
Background
Earl Warren was born on March 19, 1891 in Los Angeles, California.
His parents, Methias (Matt) and Crystal, both immigrated to the midwestern United States from Scandanivia as infants, and were extremely poor. The couple had two children—Earl, and a daughter, Ethel.
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Shortly before Earl turned five years old, the family moved north to a small townhouse in Bakersfield, California, where Matt worked as a car repairman on the Southern Pacific Railroad. At the time, both Los Angeles and Bakersfield were small but growing railroad towns.
Earl recalled that in his neighborhood, “there were no organized social or recreational activities for either school children or adults. There was no theater, nor for some years even a l