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Owen Josephus Roberts

The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition
Owen Josephus Roberts 1875-1955, Associate Justice of the U.S. Supreme Court (1930-45), b. Philadelphia. After receiving (1898) his law degree from the Univ. of Pennsylvania, he practiced law in Philadelphia, taught (1898-1918) at the Univ. of Pennsylvania, and served as assistant district attorney (1901-4) of Philadelphia co. During World War I he was appointed by the U.S. Attorney General to prosecute cases involving espionage, and he became nationally known as a prosecuting attorney in the Teapot Dome scandal (1924). Appointed (1930) to the Supreme Court by President Hoover, Roberts faced... Read more
Roberts, Owen Josephus
The Oxford Companion to the Supreme Court of the United States Roberts, Owen Josephus (b. Germantown, Pa...his law degree in 1898, Owen Roberts worked first as a private...Calvin Coolidge named Roberts a special U.S. attorney...of ), Hoover nominated Roberts, who took the seat in... Read more
Spite Nominations
The Oxford Companion to the Supreme Court of the United States ...his second‐choice nominee, Owen Josephus Roberts . Although Hoover made no public...in the Senate. Corporate lawyer Roberts had publicly proclaimed himself...Senate coalition. But personable Roberts could be presented as a liberal...credulous Senate, a fact apparent in ... Read more

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Philadelphia lawyer: a cautionary tale.(Owen J. Roberts Memorial Lecture, University of Pennsylvania Law School, November 13, 1996)
Magazine article from: University of Pennsylvania Law Review; 1/1/1997; 700+ words ; ...Philadelphia lawyer about whom I will speak is Owen Josephus Roberts, the person honored by this Lectureship. Roberts was born in Germantown in 1875. At the...Myth as Treated by the Attic Dramatists --Roberts achieved high academic honors. He continued... Read more
Era of big government thrives at the IRS.
Magazine article from: Insight on the News; 4/29/1996; ; 700+ words ; ...reminder of her ordeal that the IRS is not required to have removed. Some may find solace in Supreme Court Justice Owen Josephus Roberts' 1935 apologia: Taxes are the life-blood of government. Because they are, critics say, neither Congress nor presidents... Read more
COUNTRY MOURNS, BURIES A GREAT PRESIDENT.(PEOPLE & PLACES)
Newspaper article from: The News & Record (Piedmont Triad, NC); 5/22/2005; 700+ words ; ...Harry Hopkins; Judge and Mrs. Samuel Rosenman; Hon. Josephus Daniels; Hon. James Byrnes; Dr. Isadore Lubin; Mayor...the Supreme Court: Chief Justice Harlan Stone; Justice Owen Roberts; Justice and Mrs. Hugo Black; Justice and Mrs. Stanley... Read more

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