Albert E. Jenner; Counsel to Panel on Nixon Ouster
Attorney Albert E. Jenner, the chief Republican counsel in the congressional impeachment proceedings against President Richard M. Nixon, died Sunday after a long illness. He was 81.
Jenner, considered an expert on the field of evidence in federal cases, also served as a counsel to the Warren Commission investigation of the assassination of President John F. Kennedy and as a member of the National Commission on the Causes and Prevention of Violence.
His legal career spanned five decades in Chicago and included his partnership in one of the city’s largest and most prestigious firms, Jenner & Block.
Jenner was appointed Jan. 7, 1974, as counsel to the Republicans on the House Judiciary Committee during the Nixon impeachment proceedings. On July 19, 1974, he seconded a report by chief counsel John Doar urging the committee to recommend that the President be impeached.
Jenner was demoted to associate Republican counsel because he was considered too pro-impeachment by the Republican leadership on the committee and was replaced on July 21 by the deputy minority counsel, Samuel A. Garrison.
Jenner, born in Chicago on June 20, 1907, graduated from the University of Illinois Law School in 1930.
Jenner is survived by his wife, Nadine Newbill, and his daughter, Cynthia Lee Jenner of New York.
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