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Robert Bork

Robert BorkAKA Robert Heron Bork

Born: 1-Mar-1927
Birthplace: Pittsburgh, PA

Gender: Male
Religion: Roman Catholic
Race or Ethnicity: White
Sexual orientation: Straight
Occupation: Government
Party Affiliation: Republican

Nationality: United States
Executive summary: Fired Archibald Cox, later got himself borked

Military service: USMC Reserve (1945-46, 1950-52)

Father: Harry Philip Bork (steel company purchasing agent)
Mother: Elisabeth Kunkle (schoolteacher)
Wife: Claire Davidson (Jewish, m. 1952, d. 1980, cancer, two sons, one daughter)
Daughter: Ellen Bork
Son: Robert O. Bork
Son: Charles Bork
Wife: Mary Ellen Pohl (former nun, m. 1982)

    High School: Hotchkiss School, Lakeville, CT
    University: BA, University of Chicago (1948)
    Law School: JD, University of Chicago (1953)

    US Solicitor General Jun-1973 to Jan-1977
    Texas Review of Law & Politics Board of Advisors
    American Civil Rights Union Policy Board
    Defenders of Property Rights Board of Advisors
    Federalist Society
    Hoover Institution
    Hudson Institute
    American Enterprise Institute
    National Legal Center for the Public Interest
    Restoring the American Dream Board of Directors
    Phi Beta Kappa Society
    Netscape Consultant
    Watergate Scandal Fired Archibald Cox after William Ruckelshaus refused
    Converted to Catholicism (formerly a "generic Protestant") 2003

Appears on the cover of:
Time, 21-Sep-1987, DETAILS: How a young socialist became a conservative and one of history's most controversial Supreme Court nominees

Author of books:
The Tempting of America: The Political Seduction of the Law (1991, Simon & Schuster)
Slouching Toward Gomorrah: Modern Liberalism and American Decline (1996, HarperCollins)
Coercing Virtue: The Worldwide Rule of Judges (2003, American Enterprise Institute)


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