Supreme Court · Associate Justice
Owen Roberts
Republican appointee: Appointed by Herbert Hoover (R)
Served 1930–1945 · 8 terms in the data
Confirmed by voice vote
Biography
Owen Josephus Roberts was an associate justice of the United States Supreme Court from 1930 to 1945. He also led two Roberts Commissions, the first of which investigated the attack on Pearl Harbor, and the second of which focused on works of cultural value during World War II.
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Ideology over time
O. Roberts and the 15 justices who overlapped with O. Roberts, 1937–1944
- Owen Roberts
- 95% credible interval
- Peer, appointed by a Democrat
- Peer, appointed by a Republican
- Court median
How to read this
Martin–Quinn scores place each justice on a single liberal–conservative dimension, estimated from their votes across terms, with scores allowed to shift from one term to the next. Higher is more conservative. The shaded band is the credible interval: wider when the record is thin, especially in a justice’s first terms, and narrower as votes accumulate.
Where O. Roberts sits among all justices
Career average, every justice in the data set
O. Roberts’s range across terms
Served alongside O. Roberts
15 justicesClosest career average first. Filled dot: the peer. Ring: O. Roberts.