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Edwin Meese
75th United States Attorney General
In office February 25, 1985 – July 5, 1988
President	Ronald Reagan
Preceded by	William French Smith
Succeeded by	Dick Thornburgh
Personal details
Born	Edwin Meese III (1931-12-02) December 2, 1931 (age 92) Oakland, California
Political party	Republican
Alma mater	Yale University University of California-Berkeley
Military service
Branch/service	United States Army
Rank	Colonel

Edwin "Ed" Meese, III (born December 2, 1931) is an American attorney, law professor, and author.

Early life[change | change source]

Meese was born on December 2, 1931 in Oakland, California. He studied at Yale University and at the University of California-Berkeley.

Career[change | change source]

He served under Ronald Reagan's administration back when Reagan was Governor (1967–1974), the Reagan Presidential Transition Team (1980), and under Reagan's presidential administration (1981–1985). Meese was the 75th Attorney General of the United States (1985–1988), a position from which he resigned while serving in office under investigation from a special prosecutor.^[1]

Honors[change | change source]

On October 8, 2019, president Donald Trump presented Meese the Presidential Medal of Freedom, the highest civilian honor in the United States.^[2]

Books[change | change source]

• Judicial Tyranny: The New Kings of America? - contributing author (Amerisearch, 2005) ISBN 0-9753455-6-7
• The Heritage Guide to the Constitution, ISBN 1-59698-001-X
• With Reagan, 1992, Regnery Gateway, 0-89526-522-2

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Other websites[change | change source]

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Media related to Edwin Meese at Wikimedia Commons

• Edwin Meese profile, NNDB
• Attorney General's Commission on Pornography
• Final Report of the Independent Counsel for Iran/Contra Matters - U.S. Court of Appeals
• Meese's bio at the Mercatus Center
• Edwin Meese on IMDb