Earl Warren was born in Los Angeles, California, to Matt Warren and Crystal Hernlund. His father immigrated from Norway, and his mother from Sweden. The family later resettled in Bakersfield, California, in 1896.

The Warren family resettled in Bakersfield, California, where Earl Warren grew up.

Warren graduated from Kern County High School.

Warren received a Bachelor of Laws degree from the University of California, Berkeley.

After the United States entered World War I, Warren enlisted in the United States Army as a private in August 1917, and was assigned to Company I of the 91st Division's 363rd Infantry Regiment at Camp Lewis, Washington.

Warren returned to Oakland and accepted a position as the legislative assistant to Leon E. Gray, a newly elected member of the California State Assembly.

Warren was hired as a deputy district attorney for Alameda County.

Warren was appointed as the Alameda County district attorney.

Warren married Nina Elisabeth Meyers, a widowed store manager, shortly after being appointed district attorney.

Warren prosecuted a woman under the California Criminal Syndicalism Act for attending a communist meeting in Oakland in Whitney v. California.

Warren launched a corruption investigation against Sheriff Burton Becker.

Warren won a conviction against Sheriff Burton Becker after a corruption trial.

Warren argued his first Supreme Court case, Central Pacific Railway Co. v. Alameda County.

Warren served as the county chairman for Herbert Hoover's campaign.

Warren became chairman of the state Republican Party.

Warren was elected as the Grand Master of the Freemasons for the state of California.

Warren earned national notoriety for leading a successful campaign to elect a slate of unpledged delegates to the 1936 Republican National Convention.

Warren's father, Matt, was murdered at the family home in Bakersfield; investigators never discovered the identity of the murderer.

Warren won the Republican, Progressive, and Democratic primaries for attorney general and faced no serious opposition in the general election.

As early as 1939, supporters of Warren began making plans for his candidacy in California's 1942 gubernatorial election.

Warren defeated incumbent Democratic governor Culbert Olson in the general election, taking just under 57 percent of the vote.

Warren warned that "the Japanese situation as it exists in this state today may well be the Achilles' heel of the entire civilian defense effort."

Warren announced his gubernatorial candidacy.

Warren delivered the keynote address of the Republican National Convention, in which he called for a more liberal Republican Party.

The United Nations Charter was signed in San Francisco while Warren was the governor of California.

Warren played an important role in the United Nations Conference on International Organization, which resulted in the United Nations Charter.

Warren easily won the Republican primary for governor and, in a much closer vote, defeated Kenny in the Democratic primary.

Warren won the general election by an overwhelming margin, becoming the first Governor of California since Hiram Johnson in 1914 to win a second term.

Warren's support of the Collier-Burns Act raised gasoline taxes that funded a massive program of freeway construction.

Warren served as Thomas E. Dewey's running mate in the presidential election, but the ticket lost the election to incumbent President Harry S. Truman and Senator Alben W. Barkley.

Warren won re-election in a landslide, taking 65 percent of the vote, becoming the first Governor of California elected to three consecutive terms.

Warren announced his candidacy in the presidential election.

Eisenhower defeated Democratic nominee Adlai Stevenson II, taking 55 percent of the national popular vote.

Warren received a recess appointment as Chief Justice.

The Senate confirmed Warren's appointment by acclamation.

The Supreme Court handed down its decision in Brown v. Board of Education, which arose from the NAACP's legal challenge against Jim Crow laws.

Warren publicly announced that he would not resign from the Court under any circumstance.

The Supreme Court affirmed a lower court's decision that segregated buses are unconstitutional after the Montgomery bus boycott.

Warren was elected to the American Philosophical Society.

Warren was elected to the American Academy of Arts and Sciences.

Brennan held that state officials were legally bound to enforce the Court's desegregation ruling in Brown.

The Court struck down the "Silver Platter Doctrine," a loophole to the exclusionary rule that had allowed federal officials to use evidence that had been illegally gathered by state officials.

The Court held that the Fourth Amendment's prohibition on "unreasonable searches and seizures" applied to state officials.

Engel v. Vitale held that the Establishment Clause prohibits mandatory prayer in public school.

The Court held that the Sixth Amendment required states to furnish publicly funded attorneys to all criminal defendants accused of a felony and unable to afford counsel in Gideon v. Wainwright.

Warren helped convince Associate Justice Potter Stewart to join Brennan's majority decision in Baker v. Carr, which held that redistricting was not a political question and so federal courts had jurisdiction over the issue.

Warren wrote the Court's majority opinion, which struck down local ordinances that prohibited restaurants from serving black and white individuals in the same room in Peterson v. Greenville.

In Reynolds v. Sims, Warren indicated that the Equal Protection Clause required that state legislative districts be apportioned on an equal basis: "legislators represent people, not trees or acres. Legislators are elected by voters, not farms or cities or economic interests."

Warren simultaneously served as chief justice of the United States and chairman of the Warren Commission.

The Court held that the Sixth Amendment guarantees criminal suspects the right to speak to their counsel during police interrogations in Escobedo v. Illinois.

The Court upheld the Civil Rights Act of 1964 in Heart of Atlanta Motel, Inc. v. United States.

In Harper v. Virginia State Board of Elections, the Court struck down poll taxes in state elections.

Warren wrote the majority opinion in Miranda v. Arizona, which established a right to counsel for every criminal suspect and required police to give criminal suspects what became known as a "Miranda warning" in which suspects are notified of their right to an attorney and their right to silence.

Warren wrote the majority opinion in the landmark case of Loving v. Virginia in which the Court struck down state laws banning interracial marriage.

Warren submitted his letter of resignation to President Johnson, effective upon the confirmation of a successor.

Warren learned that Fortas had made a secret lifetime contract for $20,000 a year to provide private legal advice to Louis Wolfson, a friend and financier in deep legal trouble.

Warren retired in June to ensure that the Court would have a chief justice throughout the 1968 term and to allow Nixon to focus on other matters in the first months of his presidency.

President Harry S. Truman wrote in his tribute to Warren, which appeared in the California Law Review, "[t]he Warren record as Chief Justice has stamped him in the annals of history as the man who read and interpreted the Constitution in relation to its ultimate intent. He sensed the call of the times-and he rose to the call."

Warren died due to cardiac arrest at Georgetown University Hospital in Washington, D.C.