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Tyler, Harold R. [Biography]
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Digitized from Box 8 of the White House Press Releases at the Gerald R. Ford Presidential Library
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
MARCH 12, 1975
Office of the White House Press Secretary
THE WHITE HOUSE
The President today announced his intention to.. nominate Harold R.
Tyler, of Bedford, New York, to be Deputy Attorney General
of the United States. He will succeed Laurence H. Silberman who
is resigning.
Since 1962, Judge Tyler has served as a United States District
Judge for the Southern District of New York. He was in the private
practice of law in New York City for approximately ten years prior
to his appointment as an Assistant Attorney General of the United
States in 1960, and thereafter served as Commissioner of the
Waterfront Commission of New York Harbor until his appointment
to the bench.
Judge Tyler was born on May 14, 1922 and received an A.B. degree
from Princeton University in 1943. He was awarded an LL. B.
degree from Columbia University School of Law in 1949 and was
admitted to the New York Bar in 1950. He is a member of the
American Bar Association, the Association of the Bar of the City
of New York, and the Board of Visitors of the State University of
New York (College of Criminal Justice). He has served as a
member of the Board of the Federal Judicial Center and as a Visiting
Fellow, Institute of Criminology, Cambridge University (summer 1968).
He is married to the former Barbara L. Eden and they have three
children.
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