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Samuel Anthony Alito Jr.
Birth: April 1, 1950, Trenton, New Jersey.
Education: Princeton University, A.B., 1972; Yale Law School, J.D., 1975.
Official Positions: Law clerk to Judge Leonard I. Garth, U.S. Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit, 1976–1977; assistant U.S. attorney, District of New Jersey, 1977–1981; assistant to the solicitor general, U.S. Department of Justice, 1981–1985; deputy assistant attorney general, Office of Legal Counsel, U.S. Department of Justice, 1985–1987; U.S. attorney for the District of New Jersey, 1987–1990; judge, U.S. Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit, 1990–2006.
Supreme Court Service: Nominated associate justice by President George W. Bush, November 10, 2005, to replace Sandra Day O'Connor, who had retired; confirmed by the Senate, January 31, 2006, by a 58–42 vote; took judicial oath January 31, 2006.
In the 1972 Princeton University ...
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