Reagan was succeeded by his Vice President, George H. W. Bush, who won the 1988 presidential election with Reagan's support. In 1986, Reagan elevated Associate Justice William Rehnquist to the position of Chief Justice of the United States after Warren Burger chose to retire. Rehnquist, a member of the conservative wing of the Court, was the third sitting associate justice to be elevated to chief justice, after Edward Douglass White and Harlan F. Stone.
George H. W. Bush,
George H. W. Bush,