Robert H. Bork papers, 1798-2012

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Biographical Note

Date	Event
1927, Mar. 1	Born, Pittsburgh, Pa.
1944-1945	Attended University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, Pa.
1945-1946	Member, United States Marine Corps Reserve
1948	B.A., University of Chicago, Chicago, Ill.
1950-1952	Member, United States Marine Corps Reserve
1952	Married Claire Davidson (died 1980)
1953	J.D., University of Chicago Law School, Chicago, Ill. Admitted, Illinois bar
1953-1954	Research associate, Law and Economic Project, University of Chicago Law School, Chicago, Ill.
1954-1955	Associate, Willkie, Owen, Farr, Gallagher & Walton, New York, N.Y.
1955-1962	Associate and partner, Kirkland, Ellis, Hodson, Chaffetz & Masters, Chicago, Ill.
1962-1965	Associate professor, Yale University Law School, New Haven, Conn.
1965-1973	Professor, Yale University Law School, New Haven, Conn.
1968	Consultant, Commerce Department Member, Presidential Task Force on Antitrust
1972	Consultant, Cabinet Committee on Education Special master, Connecticut General Assembly reapportionment
1973-1977	Solicitor general, Justice Department
1973-1978	Trustee, Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars, Washington, D.C.
1977	Admitted to District of Columbia bar
1977-1979	Chancellor Kent professor of law, Yale University Law School, New Haven, Conn.
1977-1982	Resident and adjunct scholar, American Enterprise Institute for Public Policy Research, Washington, D.C.
1978	Published The Antitrust Paradox: A Policy at War with Itself. New York: Basic Books
1979-1981	Alexander M. Bickel professor of public law, Yale University Law School, New Haven, Conn.
1981-1982	Partner, Kirkland & Ellis, Washington, D.C.
1982	Married Mary Ellen Pohl
1982-1988	Judge, United States Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit, Washington, D.C.
1984	Recipient, Francis Boyer award, American Enterprise Institute for Public Policy Research, Washington, D.C.
1987	Nominee, United States Supreme Court
1988	Director, Institute for Educational Affairs, New York, N.Y. Governor, Smith Richardson Foundation, Westport, Conn. Legal advisor, National Legal Center for the Public Interest, Washington, D.C.
1988-1999	John M. Olin scholar in legal studies, American Enterprise Institute for Public Policy Research, Washington, D.C.
1989	Member, Permanent Committee for the Oliver Wendell Holmes Devise
1990	Published The Tempting of America: The Political Seduction of the Law. New York: Free Press.
1996	Published Slouching Towards Gomorrah: Modern Liberalism and American Decline. New York: Regan Books.
2000-2003	Senior fellow, American Enterprise Institute for Public Policy Research, Washington, D.C. Professor of law, Ave Maria School of Law, Ann Arbor, Mich.
2003	Published Coercing Virtue: The Worldwide Rule of Judges. Washington, D.C.: AEI Press.
2003-2012	Distinguished fellow, Hudson Institute, Washington, D.C.
2012, Dec. 19	Died, Arlington, Va.
2013	Publication of Saving Justice: Watergate, the Saturday Night Massacre and Other Adventures of a Solicitor General. New York: Encounter Books.