|16th Chief Justice of the United States| September 26, 1986 –
September 3, 2005 |Appointed by||Ronald Reagan| |Preceded
by||Warren Burger| |Succeeded by||John Roberts| |Associate
Justice of the Supreme Court of the United States| January 7,
1972 – September 26, 1986 |Appointed by||Richard Nixon|
|Preceded by||John Marshall Harlan II| |Succeeded by||Antonin
Scalia| |United States Assistant Attorney General for the Office
of Legal Counsel| |Preceded by||Frank Wozencraft| |Succeeded
by||Ralph Erickson| |Born||William Donald Rehnquist October 1,
1924 Milwaukee, Wisconsin, U.S. |Died||September 3, 2005
Arlington, Virginia, U.S. |Alma mater||Stanford University
William Hubbs Rehnquist (October 1, 1924 – September 3, 2005)
was an American lawyer, jurist, and political figure who served
as an Associate Justice of the Supreme Court of the United
States and later as the 16th Chief Justice of the United States.
Considered a conservative, Rehnquist favored a conception of
federalism that emphasized the Tenth Amendment's