Edwin Meese
Edwin Meese | |
|---|---|
_(b).jpg) Official portrait, c. 1986 | |
| 75th United States Attorney General | |
| In office February 25, 1985 – August 12, 1988 | |
| President | Ronald Reagan |
| Deputy | Carol E. Dinkins D. Lowell Jensen Arnold Burns Harold G. Christensen |
| Preceded by | William French Smith |
| Succeeded by | Dick Thornburgh |
| Personal details | |
| Born | Edwin Meese III December 2, 1931 Oakland, California, U.S. |
| Political party | Republican |
| Spouse(s) |
Ursula Herrick (m. 1959) |
| Children | 3 |
| Education | Yale University (BA) University of California, Berkeley (LLB) |
| Awards | Presidential Medal of Freedom (2019) |
| Military service | |
| Branch/service | United States Army |
| Years of service | 1953–1984 |
| Rank | Colonel |
| Unit | Field Artillery |
Edwin Meese III (born December 2, 1931) is an American attorney, law professor, and author.
Early life
Meese was born on December 2, 1931 in Oakland, California. He studied at Yale University and at the University of California-Berkeley.
Career
He served under Ronald Reagan's administration back when Reagan was Governor (1967–1974), the Reagan Presidential Transition Team (1980), and under Reagan's presidential administration (1981–1985). Meese was the 75th Attorney General of the United States (1985–1988), a position from which he resigned while serving in office under investigation from a special prosecutor.
Honors
On October 8, 2019, president Donald Trump presented Meese the Presidential Medal of Freedom, the highest civilian honor in the United States.
Books
- Judicial Tyranny: The New Kings of America? - contributing author (Amerisearch, 2005) ISBN 0-9753455-6-7
- The Heritage Guide to the Constitution, ISBN 1-59698-001-X
- With Reagan, 1992, Regnery Gateway, 0-89526-522-2
References
- ↑ "Remarks by President Trump at Presentation of the Medal of Freedom to Edwin Meese". whitehouse.gov. Archived from the original on July 9, 2021. Retrieved 2020-03-21 – via National Archives.
- ↑ Edwin Meese profile, NNDB
- ↑ Cassidy, John. "What Ed Meese's Presidential Medal of Freedom Says About the G.O.P. and Impeachment". The New Yorker. Retrieved October 12, 2019.
Other websites
Media related to Edwin Meese at Wikimedia Commons
- Edwin Meese profile, NNDB
- Attorney General's Commission on Pornography
- Final Report of the Independent Counsel for Iran/Contra Matters Archived 2014-04-03 at the Wayback Machine - U.S. Court of Appeals
- Meese's bio at the Mercatus Center
- Edwin Meese on IMDb
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