The Resume

(March 19, 1891-July 9, 1974)
Attended the University of California, Berkeley
30th Governor of California (1942-1953)
Chief Justice of the United States (1953-1969)
Headed the Warren Commission which investigated the assassination of President John F. Kennedy (1963)

Why he might be annoying:

He supported the internment of Japanese Americans during World War II.
He was the Republican nominee for the vice-presidency on a ticket headed by Thomas A. Dewey (1948).
His Warren Commission relied almost completely on FBI reports in order to determine who assassinated JFK.
It ultimately sided with the 'lone gunman' theory, criticized by skeptics and conspiracy theorists alike.

Why he might not be annoying:

He earned his initial reputation as a tough-on-crime District Attorney in California with none of his convictions overturned on appeal.
He won the Republican, Democratic and Progressive primary elections and thus ran unopposed for the governorship of California, the only man to do so (1946).
He became known as a libertarian chief justice who supported civil rights, and as a result, was hated by many conservatives in the South and elsewhere.
He provoked the distribution of 'Impeach Earl Warren' bumper stickers and 'Warren Impeachment Kits' because of his court's decisions siding with civil rights causes.
He was one of the few high-ranking activists in the status quo 1950's.
His court made landmark decisions in 'Brown v. the Board of Education' and 'Miranda v. Arizona.'
He said: 'It is the spirit and not the form of law that keeps justice alive.'
The 'Earl Warren Bill of Rights Project' is named in his honor.

Credit: Captain Howdy

Featured in the following Annoying Collections:

• Attorney
• Captain Howdy's Profiles [Series 1]
• Chief Justices of the United States (Ranked: 14)
• Freemasons
• Gallup/CNN/USA Today's Most Admired Men [1951] (Ranked: 10)
• I am a Shriner
• I am Norwegian-American
• I am on a U.S. Postage Stamp [U-Z]
• I Attended University of California, Berkeley
• I Attended Winston Churchill’s State Funeral [January 30, 1965]
• I Died in 1974 (Ranked: 83)
• I Have Hemorrhoids
• I Portrayed a Spook
• I Was the Rose Parade Grand Marshall (Ranked: 1943)
• I Was the Rose Parade Grand Marshall (Ranked: 1955)
• I'm Buried at Arlington National Cemetery [Virginia]
• Judges
• Kennedy Assassination Participants
• Look at Me, I'm on the Cover of Time
• Look at My Magazine Cover
• Losing Vice Presidential Nominees (Ranked: 1948)
• Oliver Stone's Bio-Pics
• Profiles 11501-11750 (Ranked: 11594)
• Silver Foxes [Gray and Don't Care]
• U.S. Governors
• U.S. News Most Liberal Supreme Court Justices [1937-2006] (Ranked: 8)
• U.S. Presidential Medal of Freedom Recipients

Year In Review:

For 2024, as of last weekly ranking, Out of 3 Votes: 0% Annoying
In 2023, Out of 22 Votes: 45.45% Annoying
In 2022, Out of 13 Votes: 53.85% Annoying
In 2021, Out of 17 Votes: 41.18% Annoying
In 2020, Out of 21 Votes: 76.19% Annoying
In 2019, Out of 12 Votes: 50.0% Annoying
In 2018, Out of 52 Votes: 50.0% Annoying
In 2017, Out of 12 Votes: 50.0% Annoying
In 2016, Out of 12 Votes: 25.00% Annoying
In 2015, Out of 40 Votes: 50.0% Annoying
In 2014, Out of 73 Votes: 52.05% Annoying
In 2013, Out of 36 Votes: 41.67% Annoying
In 2012, Out of 65 Votes: 35.38% Annoying
In 2011, Out of 57 Votes: 45.61% Annoying
In 2010, Out of 98 Votes: 65.31% Annoying
In 2009, Out of 43 Votes: 48.84% Annoying
In 2008, Out of 52 Votes: 48.08% Annoying
In 2007, Out of 94 Votes: 46.81% Annoying
In 2006, Out of 203 Votes: 62.07% Annoying
In 2005, Out of 254 Votes: 59.84% Annoying
In 2004, Out of 171 Votes: 56.73% Annoying