Trivia: Justices Earl Warren and William Paterson also held what office?
Senator
Governor
Mayor
Attorney general
The correct answer is Governor
So why is this answer correct? : There have been 15 senators who went on to serve on the Supreme Court, but Earl Warren and William Paterson are the only two governors (to date) who made the leap. In 1943, Earl Warren began the first of three successive terms as governor of California, until he became chief justice from 1953 to 1969. William Paterson was an original framer of the Constitution, a senator for one year, then governor of New Jersey from 1790 to 1793 before serving on the Supreme Court from 1793 to 1806.