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"Dean Of Law University of Chicago" Edward H. Levi Signed TLS Dated 1991 COA:
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Edward
Hirsch Levi (June
26, 1911 – March 7, 2000) was an American law professor, academic leader, and
government lawyer. He served as dean of the University of Chicago Law School from
1950 to 1962, president of the University of Chicago from 1968 to
1975, and then as United States Attorney General in
the Ford Administration. Levi is regularly cited as
the "model of a modern attorney general", the "greatest
lawyer of his time", and is credited with restoring order after Watergate. He
is considered, along with Yale's Whitney
Griswold, the greatest of postwar American university presidents. Levi
was born in Chicago, Illinois,
the son of Elsa B. (Hirsch) and Gerson B. Levi, a rabbi from Scotland. His
maternal grandfather was Reform rabbi Emil Gustav Hirsch, son of the German
philosopher and rabbi Samuel Hirsch. He received his A.B. Phi Beta
Kappa from the undergraduate college of
the University of Chicago in 1932, and
later his J.D. at the University of Chicago Law School in
1935. The following year he was named an assistant professor of law at
the Law School and was
admitted to the Illinois bar. He earned a J.S.D. from Yale Law
School, where he was also a Sterling Fellow in 1938. During World War II he
served as a special assistant to the Attorney General of the United States.
In 1945, he returned to the University of Chicago Law School and
was named dean of the law school in 1950. In 1950, he also worked as chief counsel for
the Subcommittee on Monopoly Power of the U.S. House Committee on the Judiciary.
He resigned as law school dean and became provost of the university in 1962. He was
a member of the White House Central Group on Domestic Affairs in
1964, the White House Task Force on Education from 1966 to
1967 and the President's Task Force on Priorities in Higher Education from
1969 to 1970. He became the University of Chicago's president in 1968, serving
until 1975, when President Gerald R.
Ford appointed him 71st Attorney General of the United States.
Levi was the first Jewish Attorney General of the United States. During his
presidency of the University of Chicago he refused to call the Chicago City
Police to evict students occupying the university administrative building. During
his term as Attorney General, he issued a set of guidelines (in 1976) to limit
the activities of the FBI. These guidelines required the FBI to show evidence of
a crime before
using secret police techniques like wiretaps or
entering someone's home without warning. These guidelines were replaced by new
ones issued in 1983 by Ronald Reagan's
Attorney General, William French Smith. He urged President
Ford to appoint Robert Bork, who was his former student and
Solicitor General, or fellow Chicagoan John Paul
Stevens to the United States Supreme Court, and Ford
followed his advice. Levi later testified in support of Bork at his
confirmation hearing. Serving
under him, in various high staff positions, were such people as Rudolph
Giuliani, Robert Bork, Antonin
Scalia, Rex E. Lee, and Arthur Raymond Randolph. Levi filed a
lawsuit preventing the formation of the Westheimer
Independent School District, a proposed school district in Texas
that was to break away from the Houston Independent School District,
on the grounds of the U.S. Voting Rights Act as his last
official action before leaving his post as Attorney General.
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