Lloyd Cutler

Lloyd Norton Cutler (born November 10, 1917 in New York City , † May 8, 2005 in Washington, DC ) was an American lawyer .

Cutler reached in 1936 with 18 years of a Bachelor Accounts in history in Yale and three years later graduated from Yale Law School. There he was also editor of the Yale Law Journal . As a result, he initially worked for a Wall Street law firm before he entered government services and was involved in drafting the lending and leasing law . He later worked for the army intelligence service .

After the end of World War II , Cutler and former colleagues from Washington opened their own law firm. There, legal aid was given to government officials who were victims of persecution by Senator Joseph McCarthy . In 1979 US President Jimmy Carter appointed him his legal advisor ( White House Counsel ). Among other things, he advised him on the SALT II disarmament negotiations with the Soviet Union.

After Carter left office in 1981, Cutler returned to running his own law firm. In 1988 he was elected to the American Academy of Arts and Sciences . In 1994 he briefly returned to the post of White House Counsel under Bill Clinton . He advised the President, among other things, on the Whitewater affair .

Web links

• Lloyd Cutler in nndb (English)
• Obituary in the Washington Post