Chief Justice William H. Rehnquist died on Saturday, September 3, 2005, of thyroid cancer.
Rehnquist was appointed as an associate justice to the Supreme Court in 1971 by President Nixon and President Reagan elevated him to chief justice in 1986.
Rehnquist sat on the court for 33 years and was known as a conservative justice. He oversaw a number of monumental cases. He dissented in the now famous Roe v. Wade. He presided over President Clinton’s impeachment trial and cases related to the 2000 presidential election.
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