William H. Rehnquist

Age: 80

Summary: chief justice of the U.S. Supreme Court who oversaw the high court's conservative shift and presided over the impeachment trial of President Bill Clinton, who spent 33 years on the Supreme Court after being appointed as an associate justice in 1971 by President Richard M. Nixon and elevated to chief justice by President Ronald Reagan in 1986.

Cause of Death: Throat cancer

Born: October 1, 1924

Died: September 3, 2005

Location: Arlington, Virginia