Roberts, Owen Josephus (1875-1955), served as a justice of the Supreme Court of the United States from 1930 to 1945. President Calvin Coolidge appointed Roberts to prosecute the “oil scandal” cases arising from the leasing of public lands to the oil industry in 1924 (see Teapot Dome ). In 1930, President Herbert Hoover appointed Roberts to the Supreme Court. Roberts was born on May 2, 1875, in Philadelphia. He graduated from the University of Pennsylvania in 1898. Roberts died on May 15, 1955.
