Warren burger biography
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Burger, Warren Earl
(b. 17 September 1907 in Saint Paul, Minnesota; d.
Warren burger biography
25 June 1995 in Washington, D.C.), lawyer, jurist, and chief justice of the United States (1969–1986) who helped to move the Supreme Court away from its liberalism of the 1960s.
Burger was one of seven children of Charles Joseph Burger, a farmer, rail-cargo inspector, and traveling salesman, and Katharine Schnittger, a homemaker.
Burger graduated from John A. Johnson High School in Saint Paul in 1925 and attended night school at the University of Minnesota for two years. In 1927 he enrolled in night classes at the Saint Paul College of Law (now the William Mitchell College of Law); he supported himself by selling insurance during the day and received his LL.B.
degree in 1931 with high honors. While practicing with the law firm of Boyesen, Otis, and Faricy, Burger served on the faculty of the Saint Paul College of Law for twelve years. Between 1935 and 1953 he was a partner in the successor firm of Faricy,