Chief Justice Warren Earl Burger Poster

 19x25 Poster Chief Justice Warren Burger rose from humble midwestern roots to become one of the longest serving Chief Justices in the Court’s history. He was born in Saint Paul, Minnesota in 1907. The youngest of seven children, Burger grew up in a working class family. The large family struggled to make ends meet, and at only nine years old Burger was already helping with their finances by delivering newspapers. Burger attended John A. Johnson High School, where he participated in numerous sports and was president of the student council. Young Burger also wrote articles about high school sports for a local newspaper before graduating in 1925. After high school, Burger put himself through night school at the University of Minnesota by selling insurance for Mutual Life Insurance. Afterward, he enrolled at St. Paul College of Law (known today as Mitchell Hamline School of Law), and graduated magna cum laude in 1931. From there Burger joined a prominent St. Paul law firm and taught night