Document Type
Book Chapter
Publication Date
2009
Abstract
Roberts, Owen Josephus (1875-1955). Lawyer and U.S. Supreme Court justice. Roberts was born in Philadelphia and graduated from the University of Pennsylvania in 1895 and from its law school in 1898. He taught there part-time beginning almost immediately until 1919, reaching the rank of full professor in 1907. While operating a profitable dairy farm, Roberts practiced law privately, punctuated by a three-year stint beginning in 1901 as first assistant district attorney of Philadelphia County. Tall and robust, he made a striking figure in both classroom and courtroom.
Publication Information & Recommended Citation
Friedman, Richard D. "Owen J. Roberts." In Yale Biographical Dictionary of American Law, edited by R. K. Newman, 461-2. New Haven, Conn.: Yale Univ. Press, 2009.
Comments
Deposited with permission of Yale University Press.