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John Glover Roberts Jr
John Glover Roberts, Jr. 1955-, American public official, chief justice of the U.S. Supreme Court (2005-) b. Buffalo, N.Y., grad. Harvard (B.A. 1976, J.D. 1979). He clerked (1980-81) for Supreme Court Justice William Rehnquist before serving in the Reagan administration as special assistant to... Read more |
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John Blair Jr
BLAIR, JOHN, JR. John Blair Jr., was among the original members of the U.S. Supreme Court. Nominated by President george washington, Blair began his term as an associate justice shortly after the Court's establishment on February 2, 1790. Considered a fair-minded, incorruptible jurist, he remained... Read more |
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John Conyers Jr
John Conyers, Jr. 1929 Read more |
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George Shiras Jr
SHIRAS, GEORGE, JR. George Shiras Jr. served on the U.S. Supreme Court as an associate justice from 1892 to 1903. Plucked by political necessity at the age of sixty from his highly successful law practice, Shiras, who had never been a judge or politician, brought a lawyerly, pragmatic perspective... Read more |
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Zechariah Chafee Jr
CHAFEE, ZECHARIAH, JR. As a leading U.S. legal scholar and educator, Zechariah Chafee Jr. did more than anyone else in the early twentieth century to shape the debate surrounding freedom of speech and the Constitution's first amendment. In his most influential book, Freedom of Speech (1920), Chafee... Read more |
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Henry Putzel Jr
PUTZEL, HENRY, JR. Henry Putzel Jr. served as the reporter of decisions of the U.S. Supreme Court from 1964 to 1979. Before becoming reporter, Putzel practiced law and served in a variety of important positions in the federal government. As an attorney with the justice department's civil rights... Read more |
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William Joseph Brennan Jr
William Joseph Brennan, Jr. 1906-97, Associate Justice of the U.S. Supreme Court (1956-90), b. Newark, N.J. After receiving his law degree from Harvard, he practiced law in Newark. He served as a New Jersey superior court judge (1949-50), appellate division judge (1950-52), and state supreme court... Read more |
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William Shippen Jr
William Shippen, Jr. 1736-1808, American surgeon, b. Philadelphia, M.D. Edinburgh, 1761. A pioneer lecturer on anatomy and midwifery, he was instrumental in the organization (1765) at the College of Philadelphia (later the Univ. of Pennsylvania) of the first medical school in the United States,... Read more |
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William Shippen Jr
William Shippen, Jr. 1736-1808, American surgeon, b. Philadelphia, M.D. Edinburgh, 1761. A pioneer lecturer on anatomy and midwifery, he was instrumental in the organization (1765) at the College of Philadelphia (later the Univ. of Pennsylvania) of the first medical school in the United States,... Read more |
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Lewis Franklin Powell Jr
Lewis Franklin Powell, Jr. 1907-98, American lawyer, associate justice of the U.S. Supreme Court (1971-87), b. Suffolk, Va. He studied law at Washington and Lee Univ. and was admitted to the Virginia bar in 1931. He had a successful law practice in Richmond and held several local offices. Powell... Read more |
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A glance at Supreme Court nominee John G. Roberts
...07-20-2005 NAME _ John Glover Roberts Jr.AGE-BIRTH DATE...7, 2003, to U.S. Court of Appeals for the District...law clerk for U.S. Supreme Court Justice William H. Rehnquist...Wife, Jane; son, ... |