Warren Burger was a Chief Justice of the United States, serving from 1969 to 1986. Born in St. Paul, Minnesota, in 1907, he earned his law degree at St. Paul College of Law, practiced in St. Paul for more than twenty years and served as an assistant attorney general in the Department of Justice before judging on the Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit from 1956. President Richard Nixon nominated him in May 1969 to succeed Earl Warren. He assumed senior status in 1986 and died in Alexandria, Virginia, in 1995.
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Source Legal Information Institute, Cornell Law School: United States v. Nixon, 418 U.S. 683 (1974)
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Mr. Chief Justice BURGER delivered the opinion of the Court.
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