Sandra Day O'Connor and William Rehnquist were law school sweethearts

Supreme Court Justices 2003.
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Sandra Day O'Connor may have been Sandra Day Rehnquist, had a certain former chief justice had his way a few decades ago.

O'Connor, the first woman on the Supreme Court, and William Rehnquist, who was the court's chief justice until his death in 2005, were more than just classmates at Stanford University back in 1949. They dated for a few months, and Rehnquist even proposed to O'Connor, an O'Connor biographer told NPR on Wednesday.

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Kathryn Krawczyk

Kathryn is a graduate of Syracuse University, with degrees in magazine journalism and information technology, along with hours to earn another degree after working at SU's independent paper The Daily Orange. She's currently recovering from a horse addiction while living in New York City, and likes to share her extremely dry sense of humor on Twitter.