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1927 - Born in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, on the 1st of March to Harry Philip Bork, a steel company purchasing agent, and Elisabeth, a schoolteacher. American lawyer and jurist.
- He earned bachelors and law degrees from the University of Chicago.
1952 - He married Claire Davidson.
1953 - Bork received his law degree.
1954 - He began as a lawyer in private practice.
1962 - Bork accepted a position teaching antitrust and constitutional law at Yale University.
- He developed his doctrine of "original intent and judicial restraint," which stated that courts can protect only the rights that are guaranteed in the Constitution.
1972 - He served as Solicitor General in the U.S. Department of Justice.
1973 - Served as acting Attorney General of the United States.
- Upon resignations of Elliot Richardson and William Ruckelshaus rather than fire Archibald Cox as per Richard Nixon's orders, fired Archibald Cox as Watergate special prosecutor in role as highest-ranking official remaining in Justice Department (Saturday Night Massacre).
1977-1981 - Bork returned and left Yale for private practice in Washington, D.C.
1982 - President Reagan appointed him to the U.S. Court of Appeals, District of Columbia Circuit.
1987 - Bork was nominated to the Supreme Court in July, his opponents ridiculed him as an arch-conservative who wanted to take away the rights and freedoms enjoyed by the political mainstream.
1988 - Bork resigned from the court of appeals and joined the American Enterprise Institute for Public Policy Research, a prominent Washington-based think tank.
1996 - Wrote "Slouching Towards Gomorrah: Modern Liberalism and American Decline".
2003 - He converted to Catholicism.
- He earned bachelors and law degrees from the University of Chicago.
1952 - He married Claire Davidson.
1953 - Bork received his law degree.
1954 - He began as a lawyer in private practice.
1962 - Bork accepted a position teaching antitrust and constitutional law at Yale University.
- He developed his doctrine of "original intent and judicial restraint," which stated that courts can protect only the rights that are guaranteed in the Constitution.
1972 - He served as Solicitor General in the U.S. Department of Justice.
1973 - Served as acting Attorney General of the United States.
- Upon resignations of Elliot Richardson and William Ruckelshaus rather than fire Archibald Cox as per Richard Nixon's orders, fired Archibald Cox as Watergate special prosecutor in role as highest-ranking official remaining in Justice Department (Saturday Night Massacre).
1977-1981 - Bork returned and left Yale for private practice in Washington, D.C.
1982 - President Reagan appointed him to the U.S. Court of Appeals, District of Columbia Circuit.
1987 - Bork was nominated to the Supreme Court in July, his opponents ridiculed him as an arch-conservative who wanted to take away the rights and freedoms enjoyed by the political mainstream.
1988 - Bork resigned from the court of appeals and joined the American Enterprise Institute for Public Policy Research, a prominent Washington-based think tank.
1996 - Wrote "Slouching Towards Gomorrah: Modern Liberalism and American Decline".
2003 - He converted to Catholicism.
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- "If the children already born each have only two children themselves ... in twenty-seven to thirty-five years the population of the world will double."
- "No church that panders to the zeitgeist deserves respect, and very shortly it will not get respect, except from those who find it politically useful, and that is less respect than disguised contempt."
