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Richard L. Thornburgh

Dick Thornburgh
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76th United States Attorney General
In office
August 15, 1988 – August 15, 1991
President Ronald Reagan
George H. W. Bush
Preceded by Edwin Meese
Succeeded by William P. Barr
41st Governor of Pennsylvania
In office
January 16, 1979 – January 20, 1987
Lieutenant William Scranton
Preceded by Milton Shapp
Succeeded by Bob Casey
United States Assistant Attorney General for the Criminal Division
In office
1975–1977
President Gerald Ford
Preceded by Henry E. Petersen
Succeeded by Benjamin Civiletti
United States Attorney for the Western District of Pennsylvania
In office
1969–1975
President Richard Nixon
Gerald Ford
Preceded by Gustave Diamond
Succeeded by Blair Griffith
Personal details
Born Richard Lewis Thornburgh
(1932-07-16) July 16, 1932 (age 84)
Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, U.S.
Political party Republican
Spouse(s) Ginny Judson
Education Yale University (BS)
University of Pittsburgh (LLB)

Richard Lewis "Dick" Thornburgh (born July 16, 1932) is an American lawyer and Republican politician who served as the 41st Governor of Pennsylvania from 1979 to 1987, and then as the U.S. Attorney General from 1988 to 1991. Before his time as Attorney General and Governor, he worked in the office of the United States Attorney for the Western District of Pennsylvania.

Thornburgh was born in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, on July 16, 1932, the son of Alice (Sanborn) and Charles Garland Thornburgh, an engineer. Thornburgh attended Mercersburg Academy then Yale College from which he obtained an engineering degree in 1954. Subsequently, he received a law degree from the University of Pittsburgh School of Law in 1957, where he served as an editor of the Law Review. He subsequently has been awarded honorary degrees from 32 other colleges and universities. He joined the international law firm K&L Gates in 1959.

Thornburgh married Ginny Hooton, and they had three sons together (John, David and Peter). Ginny Hooton was killed in an automobile accident in 1960 which left Peter, the youngest of their three sons, with physical and intellectual disability. In 1963 Thornburgh was remarried to Ginny Judson, with whom they had another son, Bill, in 1966. Ginny (Judson) Thornburgh was a former schoolteacher from New York, who holds degrees from Wheaton College in Norton, Massachusetts and the Harvard Graduate School of Education. A lifelong advocate of people with disabilities, she served as Director of the Interfaith Initiative of the American Association of People with Disabilities, based in Washington, D.C., and has co-authored and edited "That All May Worship," an award winning handbook for religious congregations working to include people with all types of disabilities. She received the Hubert H. Humphrey Civil Rights Award from the Leadership Conference on Civil Rights in April 2005.


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