Roger B. Taney was Chief Justice of the Supreme Court when President Lincoln entered office in 1861, but died in October 1864. Lincoln nominated Salmon P. Chase to succeed Taney. Chase presided over the Court from December 1864 until his death in May 1873.
Chief Justice Roger B. Taney, who supported slavery, was in office for most of the Civil War, until his death on October 12, 1864. President Lincoln appointed Salmon P. Chase to succeed Taney on December 6, 1864. Chief Justice Chase served until his own death on May 7, 1873.
Chief justice Earl Warren had seen a number of cases during his time in the supreme court. His most notable though was his ruling on civil rights cases, which ended segregation in the school systems.
Chief Justice Earl Warren
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Earl Warren was an outspoken champion of civil rights and individual liberty.
Favoring civil rights for minorities.
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Chief Justice Earl Warren, known for his proactive approach to expanding civil rights, presided over the US Supreme Court from 1953 until his retirement in 1969. He was succeeded by Warren Burger.
As early as 1868 Supreme Court Chief Justice Salmon P. Chase, a leading Radical during the reconstruction, made many decisions with the Supreme Court that weakened African Americans' civil rights. He continued to segregate them and deny them rights as voters.
The Chief Justice of the US Supreme Court during the 1950s who presided over the case Brown v. Board of Education was Earl Warren. He led the court in a unanimous decision that declared racial segregation in public schools to be unconstitutional. This landmark ruling was a pivotal moment in the Civil Rights Movement.
Supreme Court Justices, Associate Justices of the Supreme Court -- although, the head of the courts are called:The US Supreme Court - Chief Justice of the United States (since 1866 when it was changed from Chief Justice of the Supreme Court).The various state Supreme Courts - Chief Justice of the State of (state name).But, not all states call their highest court the "Supreme Court." Some use "Court of Appeals," "Superior Court," "Supreme Judicial Court," and Texas and Oklahoma divide criminal and civil supreme courts by calling them (respectively) The Court of Criminal Appeals and The Supreme Court. Nomenclature will follow the trends in the individual states.
The US Supreme Court under Chief Justice Earl Warren declared segregation of public schools unconstitutional in Brown v. Board of Education, (1954).