Last Updated: 08 Apr, 2024 | Views: 764
Age: 74
Profession: Lawyer
Other Profession(s): Politician, Judge
Famous For: Associate Justice of the Supreme Court of the United States
Higher Education: Princeton School of Public and International Affairs (1972)
About (Profile/Biography):
On April 1, 1950, in Trenton, New Jersey, the United States, Samuel Alito was born. After graduating as the class valedictorian from Steinert High School in 1968, he enrolled at Princeton University. He received a summa cum laude Bachelor of Arts degree from the Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs in 1972.
Samuel Alito Career:
Samuel Alito clerked for Third Circuit:
• In 1976 and 1977, Alito worked as a clerk for Leonard I. Garth, the Third Circuit appeals judge, in Newark, New Jersey.
• He had a job interview with Justice Byron White of the Supreme Court but was passed up for a clerkship.
Samuel Alito Assistant to U.S. Solicitor General Rex E. Lee:
• Rex E. Lee, the US solicitor general, had Alito as his assistant. He represented the federal government in twelve matters that he brought before the Supreme Court in that role.
• Just two of the cases Alito argued before the Supreme Court ended in failure.
Samuel Alito AlitoAs Deputy Assistant Attorney General
• Under Attorney General Edwin Meese, Alito served as Deputy Assistant Attorney General in the Office of Legal Counsel from 1985 to 1987, working under Charles J. Cooper.
• Alito served as the District of New Jersey's United States Attorney from 1987 until 1990.
Samuel Alito Work As Adjunct Professor
• On addition to teaching novel classes on terrorism and civil liberties, Alito taught courses on constitutional law.
• He was awarded an honorary law degree by Seton Hall Law and gave the commencement speech at the school's event.
Samuel Alito Unknown Facts:
• Alito has always been a devoted baseball enthusiast, especially of the Philadelphia Phillies.
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