LC control no. | n 50039810 |
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Descriptive conventions | rda |
Personal name heading | Clark, Ramsey, 1927-2021 |
Variant(s) | Clark, Ramsey, 1927- Clark, William Ramsey, 1927-2021 Klārk, Rāmzī, 1927-2021 |
Birth date | 1927-12-18 |
Death date | 2021-04-09 |
Place of birth | Dallas (Tex.) |
Affiliation | United States. Department of Justice |
Profession or occupation | Lawyers Attorneys general |
Found in | U.S. Cong. S. Comm. on the Judiciary. Ramsey Clark, Assistant Attorney General-designate. Hearings ... 1961 NUCMC data from Rutgers Univ. Libr. for New Democratic Coalition of New York. Records, 1960-1978 (Ramsey Clark) al-Imbrāṭūrīyah al-Amrīkīyah, 2001: t.p. (Rāmzī Klārk) English Wikipedia website, viewed Mar. 26, 2013 (William Ramsey Clark (born Dec. 18, 1927) is an American lawyer, activist and former public official. He worked for the U.S. Dept. of Justice, which included service as United States Attorney General from 1967 to 1969, under President Lyndon B. Johnson. He supervised the drafting and played an important role in the passage of the Voting Rights Act of 1965 and Civil Rights Act of 1968. Since leaving public office Clark has led many progressive activism campaigns, including opposition to the War on Terror, and he has offered legal defense to controversial figures such as Charles Taylor, Slobodan Milošević, Saddam Hussein, and Lyndon LaRouche; Born: William Ramsey Clark Dec. 18, 1927 (age 85), Dallas, Texas) NYTimes online, 12 Apr 2021: (Ramsey Clark, who championed civil rights and liberties as attorney general in the Johnson administration, then devoted much of the rest of his life to defending unpopular causes and infamous people, including Saddam Hussein and others accused of war crimes, died on Friday [April 9, 2021] at his home in Manhattan. He was 93) |