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JOHN G. ROBERTS, JR.

Name: John Glover Roberts                                                         
Born: January 27, 1955 Buffalo, New York                                         
                                                                                   
John Glover Roberts, Jr. (born January 27, 1955) is the seventeenth and current   
Chief Justice of the United States. Before joining the Supreme Court on           
September 29, 2005, Roberts was a judge on the United States Court of Appeals     
for the District of Columbia Circuit for two years.                               
                                                                                   
Previously, he spent 14 years in private law practice and held positions in       
Republican administrations in the U.S. Department of Justice and Office of the   
White House Counsel.                                                             
Roberts was born in Buffalo, New York, on January 27, 1955, the son of John       
Glover ("Jack") Roberts, Sr. and Rosemary,  Podrasky. All of his maternal         
great-grandparents were from Czechoslovakia.His father was an executive with     
Bethlehem Steel. When Roberts was in second grade, his family moved to the       
beachside town of Long Beach, Indiana. He grew up with three sisters: Kathy,     
Peggy, and Barbara.