* 1969 – Warren E. Burger is sworn in as Chief Justice of the United States Supreme Court by retiring Chief Justice Earl Warren.

In Trop v. Dulles,, Chief Justice Earl Warren said: " The Amendment must draw its meaning from the evolving standards of decency that mark the progress of a maturing society.

Justice Arthur Goldberg ( joined by Chief Justice Earl Warren and Justice William Brennan ) expressed this view in a concurring opinion in the case of Griswold v. Connecticut ( 1965 ):

No nomination for associate justice has ever been filibustered, but President Lyndon Johnson's nomination of sitting Associate Justice Abe Fortas to succeed Earl Warren as Chief Justice was successfully filibustered in 1968.

Most Chief Justices, including John Roberts, have been nominated to the highest position on the Court without any previous experience on the Supreme Court ; indeed some, such as Earl Warren, received confirmation despite having no prior judicial experience.

Two justices in the same majority, given the opportunity, might write very different majority opinions ( as evidenced by many concurring opinions ); being assigned the opinion may also cement the vote of an Associate who is viewed as only marginally in the majority ( a tactic that was reportedly used to some effect by Earl Warren ).

It is said that some chief justices, notably Earl Warren and Warren Burger, sometimes switched votes to a majority they disagreed with to be able to use this prerogative of the Chief Justice to dictate who would write the opinion.

Chief Justice John Jay served as a diplomat to negotiate the so-called Jay Treaty ( aka The Treaty of London of 1794 ), and Chief Justice Earl Warren chaired The President's Commission on the Assassination of President Kennedy.

* Earl Warren

* June 23 – Warren E. Burger is sworn in as Chief Justice of the United States by retiring Chief Justice Earl Warren.

* January 4 – Culbert Olson, 29th Governor of California, is succeeded by Earl Warren.

* July 9 – Earl Warren, Governor of California and Chief Justice of the United States Supreme Court ( b. 1891 )

* March 19 – Earl Warren, Chief Justice of the United States ( d. 1974 )

** Earl Warren is appointed Chief Justice of the United States by U. S. president Dwight D. Eisenhower.

While favorite sons County Attorney Earl Warren of California, Governor Warren Green of South Dakota, and Stephen A.

File: Earl Warren Portrait, half figure, seated, facing front, as Governor. jpg | Governor Earl Warren of California

With Eisenhower refusing to run, the contest for the Republican nomination was between New York Governor Thomas E. Dewey, former Minnesota Governor Harold Stassen, Ohio Senator Robert Taft, California Governor Earl Warren, General Douglas MacArthur and Arthur H. Vandenberg of Michigan, the senior Republican in the Senate.

After Vinson died in September 1953, President Dwight D. Eisenhower appointed Earl Warren as Chief Justice.

* James Earl Carter, Sr. ( 1894 – 1953 ), father of former US president Jimmy Carter

The estate was first opened to the public in 1953 by the 7th Earl Spencer, to mitigate against taxation.

* William Spencer Leveson-Gower, 4th Earl Granville ( 1880 – 1953 )

Earl Edwin Pitts ( born September 23, 1953 ) is a former FBI special agent who, in 1996, was arrested at the FBI Academy in Quantico, Virginia.

The first model, a convertible, was designed by Harley Earl and introduced at the GM Motorama in 1953 as a concept show car.

* The Earl of Selkirk 1953 – 1955

They had three children: Lady Constance Sibell Grosvenor ( 22 August 1875 – 8 July 1957 ), married 9th Earl of Shaftesbury in 1899 and had issue ; Lady Lettice Mary Elizabeth Grosvenor ( 25 December 1876 – 28 July 1936 ), married 7th Earl Beauchamp in 1902 and had issue ; Hugh Richard Arthur Grosvenor, 2nd Duke of Westminster ( 1879 – 1953 ).

Kuchel, a liberal Republican, had been appointed to the seat in 1953 by then Governor Earl Warren when Nixon became vice president.

In 1953, the design and specifications for the state flag were standardized in a bill signed by Governor Earl Warren.

These two touches ( featured on one or both of GM's other 1953 specialty convertibles ) were especially beloved by General Motors Styling Chief Harley Earl and subsequently were widely copied by other marques.

* Timothy Charles Robert Noel Bentinck, 12th Earl of Portland ( b. 1953 ), only son of the 11th Earl

* Timothy Charles Robert Noel Bentinck, 8th Count Bentinck ( b. 1953 ) ( also the 12th Earl of Portland )

* Ian Colin Maitland, 15th Earl of Lauderdale ( 1891 – 1953 )

The title was revived in 1953, when it was determined that the first Earl did indeed have heirs-male, contrary to the assertion of the crown.

* Lancelot Edward Lowther, 6th Earl of Lonsdale ( 1867 – 1953 )

His grandson, the sixth Earl, mainly known as Dan Ranfurly, was well known for his exploits in the Second World War and also served as Governor of the Bahamas from 1953 to 1956.

* Arthur Vesey Meade, 5th Earl of Clanwilliam ( 1873 – 1953 )

* Archibald Ralph Montagu-Stuart-Wortley-Mackenzie, 3rd Earl of Wharncliffe ( 1892 – 1953 )

* Richard Alan Montagu-Stuart-Wortley, 5th Earl of Wharncliffe ( b. 1953 )

The current earl is Gilbert Timothy George Lariston Elliot-Murray-Kynynmound, 7th Earl of Minto ( born 1953 ).

* Gilbert Timothy George Lariston Elliot-Murray-Kynynmound, 7th Earl of Minto ( born 1953 )

The board complained that Pfeiffer was too removed from management and the troops, as he surrounded himself with a " clique " of Chief Financial Officer Earl Mason, Senior Vice-President John Rose, and Human Resources Chief Hans Gutsch.

This bill was supported by some of the most able and learned men in England, including the Earl of Northumberland, the Bishop of Lincoln, the Chief Justice of the Court of Common Pleas, the Attorney General for England and Wales, the Lord Chief Baron of the Exchequer, and the Chief Justice of the King's Bench.

In 1946, prior to the current ban on fusion being enacted in that state, Republican Governor of California Earl Warren ( a future Chief Justice of the United States ) managed to win the nominations of the Republican, Democratic, and Progressive Parties.

The funeral in Bloomington's Unitarian Church was attended by many national figures, including President Lyndon B. Johnson, Vice President Hubert Humphrey, and Supreme Court Chief Justice Earl Warren.

This tension grew to an all-time high in the Earl of Oxford ’ s case ( 1615 ), where a judgment of Chief Justice Coke was allegedly obtained by fraud.

Johnson created a panel headed by Chief Justice Earl Warren, known as the Warren Commission, to investigate Kennedy's assassination.