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Charles Warren was born in Boston, Massachussets, the son of Winslow and Mary Lincoln Tinkham Warren.
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The Supreme Court in United States History is a three-volume history of the U.S. Supreme Court, detailing its establishment, the major cases reviewed and decided by the Court, the historical events surrounding cases and decisions, and the effects that Supreme Court decisions had on the public. Author Charles Warren often references newspaper and magazine articles and letters in an attempt to capture the spirit of the times. Written with one eye on the Court and one eye on people, The Supreme Court in United States History was "an attempt to revivify the important cases decided by the Court and to picture the Court itself from year to year in its contemporary setting." Volume I describes Supreme Court History from 1789 to 1821, including the establishment of the first courts and the circuit, state sovereignty and neutrality, The Mandamus Case, impeachment and treason, Pennsylvania and Georgia against the Court, The Bank of the United States, and various Chief Justices throughout this time period. CHARLES WARREN (1868-1954) was an American legal historian and lawyer. Warren graduated from Harvard University and Harvard Law School, and received his Doctorate from Columbia University. In 1894, he founded the Immigration Restriction League with fellow Harvard graduates Prescott Hall and Robert DeCourcy Ward. He authored several legal history books, including A History of the American Bar, The Supreme Court in United States History, and The Making of the Constitution, and won the Pulitzer Prize for History in 1923. Warren was the Assistant Attorney General from 1914 to 1918 during Woodrow Wilson's Presidency and drafted the Espionage Act of 1917.
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Charles Warren was born in Boston, Massachussets, the son of Winslow and Mary Lincoln Tinkham Warren.
After receiving the A. B. from Harvard in 1889, Warren taught for a year before entering the Harvard Law School. He graduated in 1892.
He began practicing law in Boston. In addition to establishing a successful legal career, Warren also had literary and political ambitions. In 1893 he became private secretary to Massachusetts Governor William E. Russell, and the following year he was a founder of the influential Immigration Restriction League. In both 1894 and 1895 he ran unsuccessfully for the state senate. In 1896 he attended the national convention of the gold Democrats. Warren held his first important political appointment, as chairman of the Massachusetts State Civil Service Commission, from 1905 to 1911. During his tenure he instituted numerous reforms and made the commission an effective instrument. A number of these measures reduced the patronage powers of state and local party officials, and this proved Warren's undoing. A new Boston city charter in 1909 required the state commission to pass on the fitness of appointees to head city agencies. Mayor John F. Fitzgerald saw these positions as political rewards and was soon at loggerheads with Warren, who consistently turned down men he considered unfit. In 1911, much to the disappointment of good-government groups, Governor Eugene Foss yielded to Fitzgerald's pressure and did not reappoint Warren to the commission. Throughout this period Warren also published a number of light pieces, including short stories, as well as articles in law journals. His most important early works were the three-volume History of the Harvard Law School and Early Legal Conditions in America (1909), which remains a classic, and History of the American Bar, Colonial and Federal, to 1860 (1911), one of the earliest forays into this area of legal history. As an active and - at this time - progressive Democrat, Warren came to the attention of President Woodrow Wilson, who named him assistant attorney general of the United States in May 1914. The outbreak of World War I the following August led Warren to concentrate on problems of neutrality and international law, an area in which he became a leading expert. Within the Department of Justice he had charge of legal matters relating to the war, including the arrests and internments of enemy aliens, and he drafted several important wartime measures, including the Espionage and Trading With the Enemy acts of 1917. Prior to his resignation in April 1918, he briefed or argued thirty-nine cases before the United States Supreme Court. Following the war Warren settled in Washington, D. C. His experience and reputation in international law led the Supreme Court to name him special master in several cases involving boundary lines and water rights. He also served as an American representative on international conciliation and arbitration commissions involving disputes between the United States and Canada, and later between the United States and Hungary. A much sought-after lecturer, he spoke before legal and academic audiences throughout the 1920's and lectured at Johns Hopkins, Boston, Virginia, Northwestern, Chicago, and Cornell universities. Warren's popular reputation resulted from his most important historical work, the threevolume The Supreme Court in United States History (1922), which won the Pulitzer Prize for history in 1923. Critics were nearly unanimous in their praise. Louis D. Brandeis's sentiment that Warren had put the bench and bar, as well as the public, in his debt was shared by many legal scholars. The Supreme Court often cited the work to justify certain historical precedents. A major theme of the publication was Warren's contention that since the 1880's the Court's intervention in the fields of state and national legislative powers had increased significantly. He maintained that the resulting "judicial law, " however, was not constitutionally final, but only another stage in developing legal doctrines. Warren's articles in law journals also carried great weight within the profession. In 1938, in Erie R. R. Co. v. Tompkins, the Supreme Court reversed nearly a century of decisions based on Joseph Story's interpretation of the Judiciary Act of 1789. In the majority decision Brandeis declared that "it was the more recent research of a competent scholar [Warren], who examined the original document which established that the construction given to it by the Court was erroneous. " Similarly, Warren's articles on presidential prerogatives were cited by Presidents Roosevelt, Truman, and Eisenhower in justifying some of their more controversial executive orders. During the 1930's Warren became an influential consultant to the Department of State, whose officials paid close attention to his articles in Foreign Affairs on neutrality and the problems of neutral nations. Many of his suggestions, especially those dealing with contraband and war materials, were incorporated into the Neutrality Acts of 1935, 1936, and 1937. But if Congress paid attention to Warren's opinions on neutrality, the executive branch relied more heavily on his articles dealing with presidential powers. During the debate over lend-lease in 1941, for example, Warren argued that even if Congress legislated restrictions on American warships serving as convoys, the president, as commander in chief, had the unrestricted constitutional power to direct the movement of ships of the United States Navy. During World War II, while serving on the President's War Relief Control Board, Warren also contributed to the debate over the fate of Axis leaders after the war. The question had already become bogged down in legal quibbling, and Warren, in speeches and articles starting in 1943, argued against trying to hold postwar trials under conventional rules of criminal justice. He cited numerous precedents for victors trying the vanquished as part of normal military procedures. After the war Warren retired from public affairs. He died in Washington, D. C.
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On January 6, 1904, he married Annie Louise Bliss. They had no children.