Earl Warren was born in Los Angeles in 1891 and spent most of his childhood living in Bakersfield, California, where his father worked as a railroad employee. Earl Warren's desire to enter the legal profession can be traced throughout his school days in Bakersfield. Earl Warren entered the University of California at Berkeley where he majored in Political Science. He received his B.L. degree in 1912 and was admitted to the California bar in 1915. From 1920 until he retired in 1969, Earl Warren served in the public sector. He was the Alameda County district attorney for fourteen years. In 1942, he began the first of three terms as the Governor of the state of California. In 1948 Earl Warren was the Republican nominee for vice-president under Thomas Dewey. In 1953, President Dwight D. Eisenhower appointed Earl Warren as the fourteenth Chief Justice of the United States Supreme Court. Earl Warren is remembered not only as one of the truly great chief justices of the Supreme Court, but as one of the most influential Americans of the twentieth century. Warren court decisions vastly expanded civil rights and personal liberties and generations later, continue to define American freedoms.

Watch this video from the Warren family visit.