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Nomination of Charles J. Cooper To Be an Assistant Attorney General

September 25, 1985

The President today announced his intention to nominate Charles J. Cooper to be an Assistant Attorney General (Office of Legal Counsel), Department of Justice, vice Theodore B. Olson, resigned.

Since 1982 Mr. Cooper has served as Deputy Assistant Attorney General, Civil Rights Division, Department of Justice. Previously he was special assistant to the Assistant Attorney General, Civil Rights Division, Department of Justice. From 1979 to 1981, he was an attorney with the law firm of Long & Aldrige in Atlanta, GA. In 1978 Mr. Cooper served as a law clerk to Justice William H. Rehnquist at the Supreme Court of the United States.

Mr. Cooper graduated from the University of Alabama (B.A., 1974; J.D., 1977). He was born March 8, 1952, in Dayton, OH, and currently resides in Alexandria, VA.

Ronald Reagan, Nomination of Charles J. Cooper To Be an Assistant Attorney General Online by Gerhard Peters and John T. Woolley, The American Presidency Project https://www.presidency.ucsb.edu/node/260373

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