Owen Roberts
Judge
1875 – 1955
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Who was Owen Roberts?
Owen Josephus Roberts was an Associate Justice of the United States Supreme Court for fifteen years. He also led two Roberts Commissions, the first that investigated the attack on Pearl Harbor and the second that focused on works of cultural value during the war. At the time of World War II, he was the only Republican appointed Justice on the Supreme Court of the United States and one of only three justices to vote against Franklin D. Roosevelt's orders for Japanese American internment camps in Korematsu v. United States.
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- Born
- May 2, 1875
Philadelphia - Education
- University of Pennsylvania
- University of Pennsylvania Law School
- Died
- May 17, 1955
West Vincent Township
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on July 23, 2013
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