Edward Hirsch Levi
| Edward H. Levi | |
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| 71st United States Attorney General | |
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In office February 2, 1975 – January 20, 1977 |
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| President | Gerald Ford |
| Preceded by | William B. Saxbe |
| Succeeded by | Griffin Bell |
| Personal details | |
| Born |
Edward Hirsch Levi June 26, 1911 Chicago, Illinois, United States |
| Died | March 7, 2000 (aged 88) Chicago, Illinois, U.S. |
| Political party | Republican |
| Spouse(s) | Kate Levi |
| Children |
David F. Levi Michael Levi John G. Levi |
| Alma mater |
University of Chicago Yale Law School |
| Religion | Judaism |
Edward Hirsch Levi (June 26, 1911 – March 7, 2000) was an American law professor, academic leader, scholar, and statesman. He served as 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 and grandson of rabbis. His maternal grandfather was 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 LL.M 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.
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