Olney briefly attended a private school called Miss Randolph's, but his mother enrolled him at the Emerson School shortly afterward. After this, Olney attended another private school called the A to Zed School. At the age of fifteen, Olney attended University High School.[3]
Warren Olney III plays a rescued piano with the Berkeley Fire raging in the background.
Olney also witnessed the 1923 Berkeley fire, where he and his college friends tried in vain to stop the fire from consuming homes - running out of water in the process.[3] In a famous photograph of a young man playing the piano with the Berkeley fire raging in the background - Olney is the one playing the piano.[3]
Ironically, even though his father and grandfather had been lawyers and had a family firm, Olney never had any intention to become a lawyer until his engagement to Elizabeth Bazata. In 1924, during his first year of law school, he has admitted to not knowing the definitions of "defendant" and "complainant."[3]
For a time, he went into private practice at Olney & Olney, the firm owned by his father and grandfather. While in this practice, Olney worked on a case to define the boundaries of Mare Island, and the interpretation of the Mexican grant of the island, relating to tides, and the justification for the existence of the Mare Island Naval Shipyard.[3]
On 10 September 1930, Olney was hand-picked by Earl Warren to replace Frank Ogden as Assistant District Attorney in Alameda County, California.[2] From that point, Earl Warren and Olney became lifelong friends and coworkers, and Warren would bring Olney along for the ride as he climbed the ranks of the American judicial system as one of his most trusted staffers.[3] A few of the cases Olney was involved in at this office include the Gosden Case, the Del Masso Case, and the Point Lobos Shipboard Murder Case.[3]
Warren Olney III served as a Lieutenant Colonel of the 4th Marine Air Wing during WWII
After the bombing of Pearl Harbor, Olney's office took part in the exclusion of the Japanese from California and the internment of Japanese Americans.[5] Olney has stated that he justified this to himself by the thinking that he was protecting these Americans from attack by their fellow neighbors, and continued to advocate for their rights, even while enforcing their removal to concentration camps.[5][3]
After the war, he returned to private practice with a law office of his own in San Francisco.[1] While at this practice, Olney worked with attorneys Bob Kenny and Walter Gordon to sue the fraudulent practice of Arthur L. Bell and his "Mankind United," organization, later known as the Christ Church of the Golden Rule.[6]
Olney served as Chief Counsel to the Special Crime Study Commission on Organized Crime in California under the Governor of California, Earl Warren.[1] At this time, Olney focused on the cases of Artie Samish and the murder of Tom Keene, the George Rochester Suit, Fred Grange and the Mendocino Trial, and underworld figures.[3]
Around this time, Olney taught criminal law at the University of California's Boalt Hall and the School of Criminology, at that time considered two different institutions.[3] When he went to Washington, his position on the faculty was replaced by Arthur H. Sherry.
Career in the Criminal Division
Olney swears in as Chief of the Criminal Division. From left: Attorney General Herbert Brownell, Chief Justice Fred M. Vinson, Assistant Attorney General H. Bryan Holland, and Warren Olney III.
Olney and his wife Elizabeth departing from the Oakland Airport for President Eisenhower's inaugural ceremony, and Olney's new job as chief of the Criminal Division.
According to Senator Lieberman, in 1954, Olney responded to a question by Joseph McCarthy in a letter stating that "it was his right as a congressional investigator to order witnesses to answer questions about whether they know any Communists who might be working in the government or in defense plants."[7] However, this does not indicate his position in favor or against the Senator's conduct. In June of that year, Olney reviewed the appeal case of Val R. Lorwin, an American government employee accused of being a Communist, and noticed what he called "irregularities" in the original case.[8] This led to the immediate dismissal of the case and the removal of prosecutor William A. Gallagher from his office.[8]
In April 1953, before the Senate Banking Committee, Olney charged the Federal Housing Authority (FHA) was "in partnership with lenders and promoters of home repairs with no responsibility for the victims of swindlers."[9] Olney advocated for homeowners, saying that the Rental Apartment Project Loan Program allowed "unscrupulous builders to pocket hundreds of millions of dollars in windfall profits."[10] Olney introduced the concepts of "dynamiters" and "suede shoe boys," to the Committee, saying that these men would sell intentionally bad repairs to homeowners at "exorbitant prices."[10]
Civil Rights Act of 1957
While running the Criminal Division, Olney was dually responsible for the DOJ's Civil Rights Section, meeting and communicating with leaders of the Civil Rights Movement, including Martin Luther King Jr.[2] In a single year, Olney's Civil Rights Section handled approximately 9,000 complaints involving alleged violations of civil rights.[11]
"On October 10, 1956, Assistant Attorney General Warren Olney III testified concerning the facts regarding Ouachita Parish before the Senate Subcommittee on Privileges and Elections and recommended that the Subcommittee hold public hearings in advance of the general election. The Subcommittee took no action with respect to the situation. Had the Administration's program been in effect the Department would have been able to initiate a civil action for the purpose of restoring the Negro voters to the rolls of registered voters in time to vote in the November election."[12]
Olney and Brownell felt that civil rights needed its own division at DOJ. In the final year of his tenure at this position, Olney successfully saw the creation of the United States Department of Justice Civil Rights Division.[1] This division, and the position of its new director, was created in the Civil Rights Act of 1957.[13] Olney also helped draft this legislation, which was the first major legislation in civil rights since the end of the American Civil War.[1]
With regards to the legal aspects of the civil rights legislation, Olney placed himself in opposition to the Southern position, and specifically in direct opposition to Senator Sam Ervin.[14] During the debate in the United States Senate over the amendment S 1735 - what was called the "trial-by-jury issue" of the Civil Rights Act - Olney said that the language of S 1735 "was a 'clever device to nullify' the civil rights proposals. If S 1735 were enacted, he said, the civil rights program 'would be no more effective than present laws in protecting the constitutional right to vote.' " [15] He also stated that S 1735 would "emasculate the whole bill."[14]
^DeLoach, C. D. (12 December 1963). "Miscellaneous Records of the Church Committee; Memorandum to Mr. Mohr; Subject: ASSASSINATION OF THE PRESIDENT"(PDF). National Archives and Records Administration. p. 14. Retrieved 18 November 2021. On the occasion of their second meeting, Ford and Hale Boggs joined with Dulles. Hale Boggs told Warren flatly that [Warren] Olney would not be acceptable and that he (Boggs) would not work on the Commission with [former Assistant Attorney General] Olney. Warren put up a stiff argument but a compromise was made when the name of Lee Rankin was mentioned. Warren stated he knew Rankin and could work with him.,
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