Warren E. Burger
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Warren Earl Burger was an American attorney who served as the 15th chief justice of the United States from 1969 to 1986.
Official portrait, 1986
Burger as Assistant Attorney General
President Richard Nixon introduces Burger as his nominee for the Chief Justice of the Supreme Court.
Official portrait of Warren Burger
William Rehnquist
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William Hubbs Rehnquist was an American attorney who served as the 16th chief justice of the United States from 1986 until his death in 2005, having previously been an associate justice from 1972 to 1
Warren E. Burger
…retirement in 1986, when he became Chairman of the Commission on the Bicentennial of the United States Constitution. He was succeeded as Chief Justice by William H. Rehnquist, who had served as an associate justice since 1972. In 1974, Burger wrote for a unanimous court in United States v. Nixon, which rejected Nixon's…
Official portrait, 1986
Portrait of Rehnquist as an associate justice in 1972
William Rehnquist (left) takes the oath as Chief Justice from retiring Warren Burger at the White House in 1986, as his wife, Natalie, holds a Bible, President Ronald Reagan and Justice Antonin Scalia look on
Rehnquist at the National Archives Rotunda in 2003