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John Glover Roberts Jr 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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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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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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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
Henry Putzel Jr 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
William Joseph Brennan Jr 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. 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. 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. 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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News Wire article from: AP Worldstream ...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, ...

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