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Cohn, Roy M (Marcus)

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Cohn, Roy M (Marcus) (1927-1986)

US lawyer. As chief counsel to Joseph McCarthy's communist-hunting US Senate permanent investigations subcommittee 1953-54, he was an often celebrated, often denigrated US national figure. From 1954 to 1986 he became a political power broker and much-sought legal talent in New York City.

Cohn was born in New York City. He was admitted to the bar there at the age of 21. He became assistant US attorney for subversive activities and soon special assistant to the US attorney general. He performed energetically at the Julius and Ethel Rosenberg spy trial. Thrice tried and acquitted on federal charges of conspiracy, bribery, and fraud, he was disbarred two months before his death.
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