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Fuller Name
- James Creighton
Identifies LC/NAF RWO
Identifies RWO
Birth Date
- 1917-02-24
Death Date
- 2015-11-23
Has Affiliation
- Organization: Covington & Burling
Has Affiliation
- Affiliation Start: 2001
- Organization: United States. Department of Justice
Birth Place
- South Pasadena (Calif.)
Associated Language
- English
Field of Activity
Occupation
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Sources
- found: His D.C. code and D.C. rules and regulations updater, 1979:prelim. p. 4 (James C. McKay, Jr., Esq.; asst. corporation counsel, D.C.)
- found: Billy's war, 2013:ECIP t.p. (James C. McKay) data view ( ... highly regarded litigator who served as the special prosecutor investigating Edwin Meese III, Attorney General under the Reagan Administration, James McKay is also an author. He describes himself as a binge reader who periodically re-reads all of Charles Dickens, Jane Austen, and Shakespeare. He is also a Civil War buff)
- found: Washington post WWW site, viewed Nov. 30, 2015(James C. McKay, a Washington trial lawyer who as independent counsel investigated alleged influence-peddling in the Reagan administration in the 1980s, died Nov. 23 [2015] at his home in Chevy Chase, Md.; he was 98; a specialist in areas including antitrust law, Mr. McKay joined Covington and Burling in the 1940s, rose to partner and practiced with that firm for more than six decades; James Creighton McKay was born in South Pasadena, Calif., on Feb. 24, 1917; in 2001, Mr. McKay joined the Justice Department for a stint with the Professional Responsibility Advisory Office; in 2007, when Mr. McKay was 90, Washingtonian magazine wrote that he "may be Washington's oldest active attorney"; in addition to his legal practice, he wrote several books, among them a semi-autobiographical novel about his experience in World War II and an 800-page unpublished novel about an independent counsel)
LC Classification
- PS3613.C54515
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Change Notes
- 1984-02-06: new
- 2015-11-30: revised
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