Background
Roberts, Clarence J. was born on October 21, 1873 in Jefferson Company, Indiana, United States. Son of Dan A. and Perintha E. (Robinson) Roberts.
Roberts, Clarence J. was born on October 21, 1873 in Jefferson Company, Indiana, United States. Son of Dan A. and Perintha E. (Robinson) Roberts.
Education common schools and Southern Indiana Normal School.
Admitted to Indiana bar, 1894. Practiced at Madison, Indiana, 1894-1905, Trinidad, Colorado, 1905-1906, Raton, New Mexico, 1906-1910. District attorney 5th Judicial District, Indiana, 1897-1899.
Company attorney, Jefferson Company, Indiana, 1900-1905.
Member 37th Legislative Assembly, New Mexico, 1909. Member New Mexico Constitutional Convention, 1910.
Appointed Associate Justice of the Supreme Court of New Mexico, September 19, 1910 (chief justice, 1912-1917). Elected for term 1918-1926.
Resigned to enter practice of law, November 1, 1921.
Member 37th Legislative Assembly, New Mexico, 1909. Member New Mexico Constitutional
Married Eliza East. Stewart, May 2, 1897.