Associate Justice John G. Roberts, Jr. hails from Chicago, Illinois. He attended the University of Chicago and the Northwestern University School of Law. He served in the Navy (1945-1945); after, he served as law clerk to Justice Wiley Rutledge during the 1947 term. President Gerald Ford nominated him as an Associate Justice of the United States Supreme Court; he took his seat on December 19, 1975, replacing Associate Justice William O. Douglas(who, with a term of 36 years and 209 days, was the longest-serving Justice in Supreme Court history).
For more information, check out the biographies of current Justices here.
Also, check out his biography on The Oyez Project here.
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