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May 01, 1952 Durham, North Carolina, United States 72 years old
American judge
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About Edward D. Robertson Jr.
- Edward D.
- "Chip" Robertson Jr.
- is a former chief justice of the Supreme Court of Missouri.
- Robertson was 33 years old when then-Governor John Ashcroft picked him to serve on the court, and he served from 1985 to 1998.
- His appointment - Ashcroft's first to the high court - led to claims that the non-partisan Missouri Plan for appointing judges was actually a highly partisan process; twenty years later, Robertson would join opposition to Republican efforts to dismantle the system.
- In 1998 he left the Supreme Court to join a Kansas City firm that was led Missouri's lawsuit against tobacco companies.
- Robertson was rumored to be mulling a challenge to then-Governor Matt Blunt, also a Republican, but he never did.
