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Sep 4, 2005 · Born Oct. 1, 1924, Rehnquist grew up in Shorewood, a wealthy Milwaukee suburb, where his father William Benjamin was a wholesale paper salesman and his mother Margery Peck Rehnquist, a housewife ...
Jul 29, 2023 · William Hubbs Rehnquist (1924–2005) was appointed to the Supreme Court in 1972 by President Richard M. Nixon. In 1986 President Ronald Reagan elevated Rehnquist to chief justice, a position he held until his death in 2005. During his tenure on the Court, both as associate justice and chief justice, Rehnquist was not known as a sympathetic ...
Sep 3, 2005 · Sept. 3, 2005. WASHINGTON (AP) -- Chief Justice William H. Rehnquist died Saturday evening of cancer, ending a 33-year Supreme Court career during which he oversaw the court's conservative shift ...
WILLIAM HUBBS REHNQUIST was born in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, on October 1, 1924. He grew up in a politically conservative household in Shorewood, a Milwaukee suburb. When Rehnquist graduated from high school, World War II was well under way, so he joined the Army Air Corps and served as a weather observer in North Africa.
William Hubbs Rehnquist is remembered as one of the most successful Chief Justices of the Supreme Court of the United States and is frequently mentioned in the same breath as his inspiration, Chief Justice John Marshall. Rehnquist was born in Milwaukee, Wisconsin on October 1, 1924. He grew up with parents of modest but comfortable means, both ...
Apr 1, 2005 · Rehnquist's other liberal colleagues were similarly impressed by his fairness and good nature: Thurgood Marshall called Rehnquist "a great Chief Justice," and William Brennan described him as "the ...
Born October 1, 1924, in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, the son of William Benjamin Rehnquist and Margery Peck Rehnquist. Married Natalie Cornell of San Diego, California; Children: James, born 1955, Janet, born 1957; Nancy, born 1959. The family are members of Emmanuel Lutheran Church, Bethesda, Maryland. Education. Attended public elementary and high ...
