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William Rehnquist
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chief justice of the United States from 1986 to 2005 (1924–2005)
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Top works
- Grand inquests
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Recent publications · Crossref
5 total works indexed
- VMD: Visual molecular dynamics
· 1996 · cited 61,493x
- Theory of the firm: Managerial behavior, agency costs and ownership structure
· 1976 · cited 43,924x
- Comparison of simple potential functions for simulating liquid water
· 1983 · cited 38,972x
- QIIME allows analysis of high-throughput community sequencing data
· 2010 · cited 30,735x
- Preparation of Graphitic Oxide
· 1958 · cited 28,531x
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Quotes
- “It is, I believe, impossible to justify the sacrifice of even a portion of our historic individual freedom for a purpose such as [giving blacks, Latinos and Jews the right to be served in local motels, hotels and restaurants].”
- “Pregnancy is of course confined to women, but it is in other ways significantly different from the typical covered disease or disability.”
- “This result […] will daily stand as a veritable sword of Damocles over every succeeding president and his advisers.”
- “The Constitution requires that Congress treat similarly situated persons similarly, not that it engage in gestures of superficial equality.”
- “No amount of repetition of historical errors in judicial opinions can make the errors true. The "wall of separation between church and State" is a metaphor based on bad history, a metaphor which has proved useless as a guide to judging. It should be frankly and explicitly abandoned.”
- “The considered professional judgment of the Air Force is that the traditional outfitting of personnel in standardized uniforms encourages the subordination of personal preferences and identities in favor of the overall group mission.”
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Key facts
- Nominated by
- Ronald Reagan
- Preceded by
- Warren E. Burger
- Succeeded by
- John Roberts
- President
- Richard Nixon
- Born
- William Hubbs Rehnquist , ( 1924-10-01 ) October 1, 1924, Milwaukee , Wisconsin, U.S.
- Died
- September 3, 2005 (2005-09-03) (aged 80) , Arlington County, Virginia , U.S.
- Resting place
- Arlington National Cemetery
- Party
- Republican
- Spouse
- Nan Cornell ( married</span>"}]]}'>m. 1953 ; died 1991 )
- Education
- Stanford University ( BA , MA , LLB ), Harvard University ( AM )
- Allegiance
- United States
- Branch service
- United States Army Army Air Forces
- Years of service
- 1943–1946
- Rank
- Sergeant
- Battles wars
- World War II
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- Number of children
- 3
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- 1924-10-01
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William Hubbs Rehnquist (October 1, 1924 – September 3, 2005) was an American attorney who served as the 16th chief justice of the United States from 1986 until his death in 2005, having previously been an associate justice from 1972 to 1986. Considered a staunch conservative, Rehnquist favored a conception of federalism that emphasized the Tenth Amendment's reservation of powers to the states.
Rehnquist grew up in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, and served in the U.S. Army Air Forces from 1943 to 1946. Afterward, he studied political science at Stanford University and Harvard University, then attended Stanford Law School, where he was an editor of the Stanford Law Review and graduated first in his class. Rehnquist clerked for Justice Robert H. Jackson during the Supreme Court's 1952–1953 term, then entered private practice in Phoenix, Arizona. Rehnquist served as a legal adviser for Republican presidential nominee Barry Goldwater in the 1964 U.S. presidential election, and President Richard Nixon appointed him U.S. Assistant Attorney General of the Office of Legal Counsel in 1969. In that capacity, he played a role in forcing Justice Abe Fortas to resign for accepting $20,000 from financier Louis Wolfson before Wolfson was convicted of selling unregistered shares.