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Former Attorney General and legal activist Ramsey Clark dies at 93
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Former Attorney General and legal activist Ramsey Clark dies at 93
Ramsey Clark, the former US attorney general and legal activist, has died at the age of 93, his granddaughter told CNN.
Clark died Friday at his home in New York, his granddaughter Taylor Clark said.
Clark served as attorney general in President Lyndon B. Johnson’s administration in the late 1960s and is recognized for supervising the drafting of the 1968 Civil Rights Act. He later defended controversial international figures, including former Iraqi dictator Saddam Hussein in his trial for crimes against humanity by the Iraqi interim government following his overthrow.
President John F. Kennedy appointed Clark assistant attorney general of the Lands Division in 1961. He investigated integration of schools across the South, first helping supervise the federal presence at the University of Mississippi, according to the Department of Justice. He was promoted to deputy attorney general in 1965 and remained in the ro
Ramsey Clark, attorney general who became a critic of U.S. policies, dies at 93 Emma Brown © Helayne Seidman/for The Washington Post Former Attorney General Ramsey Clark in 2002. Ramsey Clark, who was U.S. attorney general under President Lyndon B. Johnson and then, after leaving government service, redefined himself as a relentless critic of American foreign policy and as a courtroom defender of widely reviled figures such as former Iraqi president Saddam Hussein, died April 9 at his home in New York City. He was 93. The death was confirmed by a great-niece, Sharon Welch. The precise cause was not immediately known.
By EMMA BROWN | The Washington Post | Published: April 10, 2021 Ramsey Clark, who was U.S. attorney general under President Lyndon B. Johnson and then, after leaving government service, redefined himself as a relentless critic of American foreign policy and as a courtroom defender of widely reviled figures such as former Iraqi president Saddam Hussein, died April 9 at his home in New York City. He was 93. The death was confirmed by a great-niece, Sharon Welch. The precise cause was not immediately known. The son of conservative Supreme Court Justice Tom C. Clark, Clark grew up in the lap of the political establishment and was the last surviving member of Johnson s Cabinet. As a young man, he showed few signs of his firebrand future, but in the half-century that followed his 22-month term as the nation s top prosecutor, he underwent a remarkable political transformation and became a persistent voice of dissent against the government.
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