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10 - PEOPLE/(N-S)/Elliot Richardson.md

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   - Politician
   - DoJ
 summary: "Elliot Richardson served as U.S. Attorney General under Nixon before resigning during the Saturday Night Massacre, and later became INSLAW's lead outside counsel, declaring the PROMIS conspiracy 'far more sinister than anything revealed in Watergate' and publicly stating his belief that Danny Casolaro was murdered."
+born: 1920-07-20
+died: 1999-12-31
+location: "Boston, Massachusetts, USA"
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 Elliot Lee Richardson was born on July 20, 1920, in Boston, Massachusetts. He attended Harvard College (BA, 1941) and Harvard Law School (LLB, 1947, magna cum laude), then clerked for Judge [[Learned Hand]] on the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit and for Justice [[Felix Frankfurter]] on the U.S. Supreme Court. He served in the U.S. Army in World War II, participating in the Normandy landings, and was wounded at Omaha Beach. He died on December 31, 1999.[^1]