Edward Levi, Former Attorney General, Dies at Age 88
Edward Levi, the U.S. attorney general who helped rebuild a Justice Department crippled by the Watergate scandal, died Tuesday after a seven-year battle with Alzheimer’s disease. He was 88.
Levi had risen through the ranks to become president of the University of Chicago when he was tapped as attorney general. He served in the post from 1975 to 1977.
Levi had taught at the University of Chicago Law School, becoming dean in 1950.
He was named the university’s provost in 1962 and served as president from 1968 to 1975. He was the first Jewish leader of a major U.S. university, the school said Tuesday.
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