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President to Nominate Richard L. Thornburgh to be an Assistant Attorney General (Criminal Division) [Position Appointments and Resignations]
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President to Nominate Richard L. Thornburgh to be an Assistant Attorney General (Criminal Division) [Position Appointments and Resignations]
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Digitized from Box 11 of the White House Press Releases at the Gerald R. Ford Presidential Library
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
MAY 22, 1975
Office of the White House Press Secretary
THE WHITE HOUSE
The President today announced his intention to nominate Richard L.
Thornburgh, of Fittsburgh, Pennsylvania, to be an Assistant Attorney
General (Criminal Division). He will succeed Henry E. Petersen who
resigned effective December 31, 1974.
Since 1969, Mr. Thornburgh has been United States Attorney for the
Western District of Pennsylvania. He practiced law with the firm of
Kirkpatrick, Lockhart, Johnson and Hutchinson from 1959 to 1969. He
was Staff Counsel from 1957 to 1959 for the Aluminum Company of
America.
Mr. Thornburgh was born on July 16, 1932 in Carnegie, Pennsylvania,
and received his B.E. degree from Yale University in 1954. He
attended the University of Pittsburgh Law School and received his LL. B.
degree in 1957.
Mr. Thornburgh is married to the former Virginia Walton Judson and
they have four children.
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