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To: Peter Dierks who wrote (29)9/5/2005 7:52:13 PM
From: Peter Dierks  Respond to of 817
 
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WILLIAM H. REHNQUIST
BIRTH DATE: Oct. 1, 1924.

EDUCATION: Bachelor's and master's degree, Stanford University, 1948; master's degree, Harvard University, 1949; law degree, Stanford University, 1952.

CAREER: U.S. Army Air Corps soldier, 1943-46; law clerk to Justice Robert H. Jackson, 1951-53; private practice in Phoenix, Ariz., 1953-69; assistant U.S. attorney general, Office of Legal Counsel, 1969-71; named to Supreme Court by President Nixon, 1972; elevated to chief justice by President Reagan, 1986.

MAJOR CASES: Bush v. Gore, making George W. Bush president in 2000; cases allowing the use of public money for religious institutions, boosting authority of the states and greater government powers for police searches.

FAMILY: Married to Natalie Cornell, now deceased; three children.
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