Warren Earl Burger was the fifteenth chief justice of the United States and enjoyed the fourth-longest tenure as head of the Supreme Court. Coming from a working-class family of modest means in Saint Paul, Minnesota, Burger took work at an early age to help out with his family’s finances. He was a good student and won a scholarship to Princeton, which he declined because it would not have paid for all of his expenses. While selling insurance, Burger attended evening school, taking extension courses at the University of Minnesota from 1925 to 1927. He worked as an accountant while attending Saint Paul College of Law (now William Mitchell College of Law), from which he graduated magna cum laude in 1931.