Harold G. Christensen

Harold Graham Christensen (born June 25, 1926 in Springville , Utah County , Utah ; † November 14, 2012 in Salt Lake City , Utah) was an American attorney who temporarily served as the US Attorney General .

Life

Christensen, who from 1944 to 1946 his military service in the reserve of the US Navy made, then studied at the University of Utah and received his in 1949 a Bachelor of Arts . A subsequent postgraduate study of law at the Law School of the University of Michigan , he completed in 1951 with a Juris Doctor .

After his admission as a lawyer in the state of Utah in, he practiced as a lawyer and later partner in the law firm Worsley, Snow & Christensen . Christensen, who was also active in the American Bar Association , the American Bar Foundation, and the American College of Trial Lawyers , was president of the Salt Lake County Bar Association from 1972 to 1973 . Between May 1988 and 1989 he was US Deputy Attorney General and Deputy Attorney General in the administration of US President Ronald Reagan .

After he was again a lawyer and partner of Worsley, Snow & Christensen , he remained a consultant for the law firm Snow, Christensen & Martineau after leaving there . In September 2006, the Utah Bar Association awarded him a Lifetime Achievement Award.

Web links

• Harold G. Christensen in the nndb (English)
• Obituary ( English )

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Nomination of Harold G. Christensen To Be Deputy Attorney General , May 24, 1988
2. ↑ UTAH BAR JOURNAL: The Utah State Bar Presents Lifetime Achievement Awards at 75th Anniversary Celebration Dinner ( Memento of the original from December 19, 2011 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.