Wanted: Dead Or Alive

Written by Frum Forum Editors on Friday May 29, 2009

Let's start with this one: Earl Warren, the 14th Chief Justice of the United States, who, despite his whiteness, rather famously ended racial segregation in the schools. As for the richness of his life experiences, it may be that this father of six and children of immigrants didn't have time for many -- given that he served in the army in World War I; was elected Governor of California; ran for vice-president in 1948 on the Dewey ticket; and his father was murdered in a robbery when Warren was still a boy.

We'll keep looking.
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