Malcolm R. Wilkey
| Malcolm R. Wilkey |
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| United States Ambassador to Uruguay |
In office
1985–1990 |
| President |
Ronald Reagan
George H.W. Bush
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| Preceded by |
Thomas Aranda Jr. |
| Succeeded by |
Richard C. Brown |
| Judge of the United States Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit
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In office
1970–1985 |
| Appointed by |
Richard Nixon |
| Preceded by |
Warren E. Burger |
| Succeeded by |
Stephen F. Williams |
| United States Assistant Attorney General for the Criminal Division |
In office
1959–1961 |
| President |
Dwight Eisenhower |
| Preceded by |
Malcolm Anderson |
| Succeeded by |
Herbert Miller Jr. |
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United States Assistant Attorney General for Legal Counsel
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In office
1958–1959 |
| President |
Dwight Eisenhower |
| Preceded by |
W. Wilson White |
| Succeeded by |
Robert Kramer |
| United States Attorney for the Southern District of Texas |
In office
1954–1958 |
| President |
Dwight Eisenhower |
| Preceded by |
Brian S. Odem |
| Succeeded by |
William B. Butler |
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| Personal details |
| Born |
Malcolm Richard Wilkey
(1918-12-06)December 6, 1918
Murfreesboro, Tennessee, U.S.
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| Died |
August 15, 2009(2009-08-15) (aged 90)
Santiago, Chile |
| Cause of death |
Prostate cancer |
| Political party |
Republican |
| Spouse(s) |
Emma Secul Depolo (m. 1959) |
| Residence |
Santiago, Chile 1990–2009 |
| Education |
A.B. 1940 (Phi Beta Kappa)
LL.B. 1948 |
| Alma mater |
Harvard College, Harvard Law School
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| Occupation |
Private practice of law in Houston until 1954
U.S. Attorney, Houston, Texas, 1954–1958
Assistant Attorney General, Office of Legal Counsel, 1958–
General Counsel, Kennecott Copper, 1963–1970
Judge, United States Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit, 1970–1990
Ambassador to Uruguay, 1985–1990 |
| Known for |
investigating 1992 House banking scandal
1982 case ruled unconstitutional the legislative veto
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Malcolm Richard Wilkey (December 6, 1918 – August 15, 2009) was a United States federal judge and ambassador.
Wilkey was born in Murfreesboro, Tennessee and raised in Madisonville, Kentucky. He received an A.B. from Harvard University in 1940, and served in the U.S. Army during World War II in George S. Patton's Third Army from 1941 to 1945 (he left active duty as a Major and served in the U.S. Army Reserve until 1953, when he left as a Lieutenant Colonel). After the war he enrolled in law school and received an LL.B. from Harvard Law School in 1948.
He was in private practice in Houston, Texas, from 1948 to 1954, also teaching at the University of Houston Law Center from 1949 to 1954.
He entered public service in Texas as the U.S. Attorney for the Southern District of Texas (1954–1958). In 1958 he moved to Washington, D.C., to serve as the U.S. Assistant Attorney General of the Office of Legal Counsel at the Department of Justice (1958–1959), and Assistant Attorney General of the Criminal Division (1959–1961). He returned to private practice in Texas (1961–1963), before moving on to become the General counsel and secretary of Kennecott Copper Corporation (1963–1970), during which he was also a member of the Advisory Panel on International Law for the legal adviser at the U.S. Department of State (1969–1973).
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