Egil Krogh
| Egil Krogh | |
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| United States Undersecretary of Transportation | |
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In office February 2, 1973 – May 9, 1973 |
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| President | Richard Nixon |
| Preceded by | James Beggs |
| Succeeded by | John Barnum |
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| Born |
August 3, 1939 Chicago, Illinois, U.S. |
| Political party | Republican |
| Alma mater |
Principia College (B.A.) University of Washington (J.D.) |
Egil “Bud” Krogh, Jr. (born August 3, 1939) is an American lawyer who became infamous as an official of the Nixon Administration who was imprisoned for his part in the Watergate Affair. He is currently Senior Fellow on Ethics and Leadership at the Center for the Study of the Presidency and Congress and Counselor to the Director at the School for Ethics and Global Leadership.
Krogh was born in Chicago, Illinois and raised in Seattle, Washington; his father was a Norwegian immigrant. He graduated with highest honors from Principia College, Elsah, Illinois in 1961. After service in the U.S. Navy as a communications officer aboard USS Yorktown (1962–1965), he graduated from the University of Washington School of Law in 1968.
He was employed by Hullin, Ehrlichman, Roberts and Hodge, the Seattle law firm of family friend John Ehrlichman, and joined Ehrlichman in the counsel's office of Nixon's 1968 presidential campaign. After Nixon was elected, Krogh helped with the arrangements for the inauguration. Krogh joined the Nixon White House as an advisor on the District of Columbia and later served as liaison to the Federal Bureau of Investigation and the Bureau of Narcotics and Dangerous Drugs. It was there he met G. Gordon Liddy.
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