Up for auction "Attorney General" Lawrence Walsh
Signed 8x11 Magazine Page. Beside him is authenticated by Todd Mueller Autographs, and comes with their certificate of authenticity.
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Lawrence
Edward Walsh (January 8, 1912
– March 19, 2014) was an American lawyer, a United States District
Judge of the United States District Court for the Southern District of New York and United
States Deputy Attorney General who was appointed Independent
Counsel in December 1986 to investigate the Iran–Contra affair during
the Reagan Administration.
Walsh was born in Port Maitland, Nova Scotia, Canada, the son of Cornelius Edward (1879-1927) and Lila May
(Sanders) Walsh. His father was a family doctor and his grandfather was a sea
captain. Walsh grew up in Queens, New York, and became a naturalized citizen at the age of 10. He graduated from Flushing High School. Walsh
received his undergraduate degree from Columbia University in
1932 and a law degree from Columbia Law School in
1935. After graduating from law school, he served a varied career in public
life, including as special assistant attorney general of Drukman Investigation
from 1936 to 1938 and as a deputy assistant district attorney of New York County from 1938 to 1941. After a period in
private practice of law in New York City from 1941 to 1943, he served as assistant
counsel to New York Governor Thomas E. Dewey from 1943 to 1949 and as Counsel to
the Governor from 1950 to
1951. He was a Counsel for the Public Service Commission from 1951 to 1953, and
the general counsel and Executive Director of the Waterfront Commission of New
York Harbor from 1953 to 1954. Walsh was nominated by President Dwight D. Eisenhower on
April 6, 1954, to the United States District Court for the Southern District of New York,
to a new seat authorized by 68 Stat. 8. He was confirmed by the United States Senate on
April 27, 1954, and received his commission the next day. His service
terminated on December 29, 1957, due to his resignation. After his resignation
from the federal bench, Walsh served as Deputy
Attorney General in the Eisenhower administration from 1957 to
1960. Thereafter, Walsh resumed the private practice of law in New York City,
where he practiced from 1961 to 1981 as a partner at Davis Polk & Wardwell.
There, he worked on the Bendectin litigation and represented
companies such as General Motors and AT&T. In 1969, on the recommendation of his former boss,
Secretary of State and former Attorney General William P. Rogers, Walsh was named as an ambassador in the
United States Delegation to the Paris Peace Talks in
1969, but held the position for only a short period of time. He served as president
of the American Bar Association from
1975 until 1976. In 1981, approaching Davis Polk's mandatory retirement age, Walsh
moved his practice to his wife's home town of Oklahoma City, Oklahoma, where he joined the firm of Crowe & Dunlevy.
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