Edwin Meese

Edwin Ed Meese, III is an American attorney, law professor, author and member of the Republican Party who served in official capacities within the Ronald Reagan Gubernatorial Administration , the Reagan Presidential Transition Team and the Reagan White House , eventually rising to hold the position of the 75th Attorney General of the United States , a position from which he resigned while under investigation from a special prosecutor.

Meese was born in Oakland, California, the eldest of four sons born to Leone and Edwin Meese, Jr. He was raised in a practicing Lutheran family, of German descent. His father was an Oakland city government official, president of the Zion Lutheran Church, and servedyears in the nonpartisan office of Treasurer of Alameda County.

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