Earl Warren, American attorney and politician, served as the 30th Governor of California (1943–1953) and as the 14th Chief Justice of the United States (1953–1969).

The “Warren Court” presided over a major shift in American constitutional jurisprudence, with Warren writing the majority opinions in landmark cases such as Brown v. Board of Education (1954), Reynolds v. Sims (1964), Miranda v. Arizona (1966) and Loving v. Virginia (1967). He also led the Warren Commission, a presidential commission that investigated the 1963 assassination of President John F. Kennedy.

In 1964 Macmillan published The Warren Court: Personality and Photographic Portrait of the Justices of Today’s United States Supreme Court featuring portraits by Yousuf Karsh.

Earl Warren was born on this day, March 19, in 1891 (d. 1974).