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Jaworski, Leon

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Jaworski, Leon (1905–1982)

US lawyer who in 1925 was the youngest person ever admitted to the Texas bar. In 1931 he joined the Houston firm that became Fulbright & Jaworski. During and after World War II, as chief of the war crimes trial section of the Judge Advocate General's Corps, he prosecuted Nazi war criminals. He was head of the American Bar Association 1971–72. He directed the Watergate Special Prosecution Force 1973–74 that led to the resignation of President Richard Nixon.

He was born in Waco, Texas, the child of Polish and Austrian immigrants.



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