| Robert Bork  AKA 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
John McCain 2008
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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