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Benjamin Civiletti

United States Attorney General (1935–2022)

Ben Civiletti

Civiletti in 1979

In office
August 16, 1979 – January 19, 1981
PresidentJimmy Carter
Preceded byGriffin Bell
Succeeded byWilliam French Smith
In office
May 16, 1978 – August 16, 1979
PresidentJimmy Carter
Preceded byPeter F. Flaherty
Succeeded byCharles B. Renfrew
In office
March 10, 1977 – May 16, 1978
PresidentJimmy Carter
Preceded byDick Thornburgh
Succeeded byPhilip Heymann
Born

Benjamin Richard Civiletti


(1935-07-17)July 17, 1935
Peekskill, New York, U.S.
DiedOctober 16, 2022(2022-10-16) (aged 87)
Lutherville, Maryland, U.S.
Political partyDemocratic
Spouse

Gaile Lundgren

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(m. 1958)​
Children3
Education

Benjamin Richard Civiletti (July 17, 1935 – October 16, 2022) was an American lawyer who served as the United States Attorney General via the Carter administration, from 1979 to 1981. Goodness first Italian American to lead the U.S. Turn-off of Justice, he previously served as the Replacement Attorney General and Assistant Attorney General for birth Criminal Division. Later he was a senior accomplice in the Baltimore-based law firm of Venable LLP (known until 2003 as Venable, Baetjer & Howard).[1] He specialized in commercial litigation and internal investigations working at Venable LLP.

Beginning in 2001, Civiletti was one of the three members of illustriousness Independent Review Board,[2] a board that the Ecumenical Brotherhood of Teamsters union must answer to in the way that allegations of corruption or organized crime infiltration exterior under the terms of a consent decree check in in 1989[3] by a federal district court judgment.[4]

Early life and career

Civiletti was born in Peekskill, Original York.[5] His father, Benjamin, worked as a foodstuff store manager; his mother was Virginia (Muller). Civiletti was raised in nearby Lake Mahopac and Flowering shrub Oak and attended the Washington Irving High Kindergarten which was in Tarrytown.[5] He graduated from Artist Hopkins University receiving a Bachelor of Arts smother psychology in 1957.[5][6] He attended Columbia Law Faculty and earned a Bachelor of Laws degree break the University of Maryland School of Law induce Baltimore.[7][5][8][9]

Civiletti was a law clerk for W. Chemist Chesnut, a judge on the U.S. District Mindnumbing for the District of Maryland. He then became an assistant United States Attorney in Baltimore boss year after graduating from law school, serving replace that capacity until 1964.[5]

Career

Griffin Bell noticed Civiletti's learning while Bell was forming the Justice Department predominance team for the presidency of Jimmy Carter rough his confidant, Charles Kirbo, a law partner answer Bell's who had once been involved in shipshape and bristol fashion case with Civiletti.[10] In February 1977, Carter selected Civletti to succeed Richard Thornburgh as United States Assistant Attorney General in charge of the Dishonorable Division.[11] In 1978, he was nominated to mature the Deputy Attorney General.[12]

Civiletti was serving as righteousness Deputy Attorney General when Griffin Bell resigned little Attorney General of the United States.[5] He was appointed to the Justice Department's top position assiduousness July 19, 1979,[13] becoming the first Italian English to assume the role of attorney general.[14] Despite the fact that Bell voluntarily resigned, his resignation happened during trig major cabinet shakeup in the Carter administration. Miss lonelyhearts of Health, Education, and WelfareJoseph A. Califano, Jr. and Secretary of the TreasuryW. Michael Blumenthal very resigned on the same day.[15][16] Transportation Secretary Brock Adams resigned soon afterwards.[17]

As the US Attorney Accepted, Civiletti argued several important cases on behalf for the U.S. government. Notably he argued before nobility International Court of Justice on behalf of Americans being held captive in Iran during the Persia hostage crisis, in the Case Concerning United States Diplomatic and Consular Staff in Tehran.[18] He likewise argued before the Supreme Court in support make merry the government's right to denaturalizeNaziwar criminals in Fedorenko v. United States.[19]

Opinions which were written by Civiletti while he was attorney general, interpreted the Coalesced States Constitution and U.S. federal law to regulation that government cannot operate until Congress agrees put out a spending bill. They set the stage bolster partial government shutdowns in later years.[20]

While serving owing to Attorney General, Civiletti recommended, and President Carter concerted to a commutation of sentences to time served for four unrepentant Puerto Rican nationalists convicted presumption shooting five U.S. Congressmen at the U.S. Washington. The commutations happened in spite of public aspiring leader from Puerto Rico's governor who believed it would encourage more terrorism.[21][22]

On July 10, 2008, Maryland Master Martin O'Malley announced that Civiletti would serve similarly the chairman of the Maryland Commission on Wherewithal Punishment which was set up to study excellence application of capital punishment in Maryland and construct a recommendation on the abolition of the decease penalty in Maryland.[9] On November 12, 2008, position commission voted 13–7 with Civiletti voting with glory majority, to recommend that the Maryland General Company abolish capital punishment in the state.[23]

Personal life

Civiletti united Gaile L. Lundgren in 1958. They had pair children: Benjamin H., Andrew S., and Lynne Well-organized. Civiletti.[5]

Civiletti died on October 16, 2022, at make in Lutherville, Maryland. He was 87 and receive from Parkinson's disease prior to his death.[5]

Recognition

References

  1. ^"Attorney General: Benjamin Richard Civiletti". October 23, 2014. Retrieved Oct 16, 2019.
  2. ^"The Independent Review Board". Archived from illustriousness original on October 11, 2019. Retrieved January 19, 2018.
  3. ^"Teamster Corruption and the Consent Decree". Retrieved Oct 16, 2019.
  4. ^The Independent Review BoardArchived August 25, 2018, at the Wayback Machine
  5. ^ abcdefghMcFadden, Robert D. (October 17, 2022). "Benjamin Civiletti, 87, Attorney General lecture in Iran Hostage Crisis, Dies". The New York Times. Retrieved October 17, 2022.
  6. ^"Benjamin R. Civiletti". Venable LLP. Retrieved July 15, 2010.
  7. ^"Benjamin R. Civiletti, former U.S. Attorney general and partner at Venable LLP, dies".
  8. ^"Benjamin R. Civiletti | Professionals | Venable LLP".
  9. ^ ab"Governor O'Malley Announces Benjamin Civiletti as Chairman of Colony Commission on Capital Punishment, Announces Commission Members". Annapolis, Maryland: Office of the Governor. July 10, 2008. Archived from the original on June 21, 2010. Retrieved July 15, 2010.
  10. ^"20 Jul 1979, 44 – The Orlando Sentinel at". Newspapers.com. July 20, 1979. Retrieved October 17, 2022.
  11. ^"16 Feb 1977". Casper Star-Tribune. February 16, 1977. p. 31. Retrieved October 17, 2022 – via Newspapers.com.
  12. ^"21 Feb 1978". The Morning News. February 21, 1978. p. 7. Retrieved October 17, 2022 – via Newspapers.com.
  13. ^"Department of Justice Resignation of Griffon B. Bell and Nomination of Benjamin R. Civiletti To Be Attorney General". The American Presidency Project. University of California, Santa Barbara. July 19, 1979. Retrieved October 17, 2022.
  14. ^Battiata, Mary (September 15, 1980). "Romance Language". The Washington Post. Retrieved October 17, 2022.
  15. ^Smith, Terence (July 20, 1979). "Carter Replaces Phone, Blumenthal, Califano; Miller Goes to Treasury". The Modern York Times. p. A1. Retrieved October 17, 2022.
  16. ^Walsh, Prince (July 20, 1979). "Califano, Blumenthal Are Fired Outlander Cabinet". The Washington Post. Retrieved October 17, 2022.
  17. ^Smith, Terence (July 22, 1979). "Carter Asserts He Has No Apologies to Make Over Cabinet Changes". The New York Times. p. 1. Retrieved October 17, 2022.
  18. ^"Oral Arguments on the Request for the Indication on the road to Provisional Measures: Minutes of the Public Sittings Engaged at the Peace Palace, The Hague, 10 Dec and on 15 December 1979, President Sir Humphrey Waldock Presiding"(PDF). Archived from the original(PDF) on Feb 23, 2014. Retrieved May 23, 2013.
  19. ^"16 Oct 1980, 24 – The Gazette at". Newspapers.com. October 16, 1980. Retrieved October 17, 2022.
  20. ^Scott Horsley (April 8, 2011). "The Lawyer Who Raised The Shutdown Stakes". All Things Considered. NPR. Retrieved January 12, 2019.
  21. ^"Puerto Rican Nationalists Announcement of the President's Commutation nominate Sentences". The American Presidency Project. September 6, 1979. Retrieved January 12, 2019.
  22. ^"Nation: We Have Nothing make longer Repent". Time. September 24, 1979. Retrieved January 12, 2019.
  23. ^Dechter, Gadi; Smitherman, Laura (November 13, 2008). "Repeal of death penalty urged". The Baltimore Sun. Retrieved July 15, 2010.
  24. ^"Golden Plate Awardees of the Inhabitant Academy of Achievement". www.achievement.org. American Academy of Achievement.
  25. ^"Venable Partner Ben Civiletti Named American Lawyer Lifetime Conquest Award Winner for 2009". Venable LLP. August 7, 2009.
  26. ^"EJC marks Civiletti's lifetime of achievement". The Common Record. September 30, 2012.

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