Nicholas Katzenbach

Nicholas deBelleville Katzenbach (born January 17, 1922) was a American lawyer and United States Attorney General.

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Born in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, he attended Phillips Exeter Academy, received his B.A. cum laude from Princeton University in 1945, and in 1947 his LL.B. cum laude from Yale University Law School. From 1947 to 1949 he was a Rhodes Scholar at Balliol College, Oxford.

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He was admitted to the New Jersey bar in 1950 and the Connecticut bar in 1955. He was an associate in the law firm of Katzenbach, Gildea and Rudner in 1950. From 1950 to 1952 he was attorney-advisor in the Office of General Counsel to the Secretary of the Air Force. Katzenbach was an associate professor of law at Yale from 1952 to 1956, and a professor of law at the University of Chicago from 1956 to 1960.

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He served in the U.S. Department of Justice as Assistant Attorney General of the Office of Legal Counsel in 1961-1962 and as Deputy Attorney General from 1962 to 1965. President Lyndon B. Johnson appointed Katzenbach 65th Attorney General of the United States on February 11, 1965, and he held the office until October 2, 1966. He also served as Under-Secretary of State from 1966 to 1969.

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