Warren Burger
On September 17, 1907 Warren Earl Burger was born in St Paul Minnesota. Born in a family of seven, he must have gotten really good at arguing in order to get his way because, eventually, Burger had found his true passion was law. But, Since his family was so big he couldn't attend Princeton because of financial problems. So, instead he attended the University of Minnesota for two years in order to be an insurance salesman. With the salary Burger earned as a salesman, he used it to pay for law school and attended St. Paul College of Law.
After Burger earned his law degree in 1931, he joined a law firm in St. Paul. On top of handling a variety of civil and criminal cases he taught contract law at St. Paul College of Law for twelve years. Soon after, in 1948 and 1952, Burger was a campaign manager for a presidential nominee, Harold Stassen, unfortunately, the campaign failed.
But, during the 1952 gathering Burger switched gears and supported Dwight D. Eisenhower, which helped Eisenhower win the election in 1953. The year following the election, Burger became an assistant attorney general in the Department of Justice. Then, 3 years later, Burger was appointed to the United States Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit, in which he stayed in practice for thirteen years. One of Burgers best accomplishments was when President Eisenhower made him head of the Justice Department's Civil Division. With almost no experience in maritime law, Burger supervised a staff of about 180 lawyers and successfully handled several cases involving shipping for the government.
In 1968, President Johnson had nominated Justice Abe Fortas to the position of Chief Justice. She would replace Earl Warren, but the nomination was stalled in...
Warren Burger
This essay contains enough tripe and nonsense that it is best forgotten quickly and completely.
Contrary to clichés spouted in the opening paragraph, being argumentative has very little to do with law.
Burger's support of Eisenhower in 1952 may have showed Burger's skill at placing himself prominently within the camp of a winning political figure, but given Eisenhower's enormous personal popularity and the incredible strength that the Republicans could bring to bear that year, it is silly to suggest that Burger was key to Eisenhower's winning th presidency, or even his carrying Minnesota.
The connection between maritime law and the Civil Division of the Justice Department is complete nonsense. The shipping matters in which the Justice Department is involved are land shipments, not ocean-borne (maritime) matters.
Abe Fortas? "She"? Given that Fortas was already on the Supreme Court, that would mean that there was a woman justice fully twelve years before Ronald Reagan nominated Sandra Day O'Connor as the first woman on the high court. Well, this essay suggests that a great many history books are mistaken.
"Burger served as Chief Justice from 1969 to 1986 and was proven to be one of the best Chief Justice's in all of time." First of all, why the apostrophe? This is not a possessive; it is a plural.
Secondly, on what basis does this person make the suggestion that Burger was a good chief justice. Burger was a better administrator than his predecessor Earl Warren, but during the long years of the Burger Court, the standing of the courts fell as the Court slipped farther and father to the right, failing to fulfill the promises that Warren had unlocked. In the end, Burger was regarded by most legal professional as an example of the Peter Principle: someone who had been promoted beyond his competence.
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