President Gerald Ford's Birthday

Today marks the 96th birthday of our 38th president, Gerald R. Ford. President Ford served from 1974 to 1977 and was known as the “Jerry.”  He was the first Vice President who was not elected by the people, which also makes him the first President not elected by the people.  

To learn more, click on these links:

White House: Biography of Gerald R. Ford

Gerald R. Ford (American President: an Online Reference Resource)

Gerald R. Ford Presidential Library and Museum

Sonnet Erin Brown
Head of Federal Documents
Reference & Instruction Librarian
Subject Specialist: Legal Research, Political Science
Earth & Environmental Sciences, Philosophy

U.S. Supreme Court: Associate Justice John Paul Stevens

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.

Sonnet Erin Brown
Head of Federal Documents
Reference & Instruction Librarian
Subject Specialist: Legal Research, Political Science
Earth & Environmental Sciences, Philosophy