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Attorney Leon Jaworski

President - Elect of American Bar Association

Houston, Texas

Attorney Leon Jaworski is the new president-elect of the American Bar Association.

The 65-year-old lawyer is senior partner of one of the largest and most successful law firms in the country. Its clients included former President Lyndon Johnson, who once seriously considered to appoint Mr. Jaworski a member of his cabinet as attorney general.

Atty. Jaworski has been a member of a number ot Presidential commissions, and special counsel to the Warren Commission which investigated the assasination of President Kennedy.

In 1961, when Mr. Jaworski wrote a book, "After Fifteen Years." about his experiences as a prosecutor at Nazi war-crime trials, President Johnson wrote the introduction in which he referred to Mr. Jaworski as "my friend and counselor."

In 1960 he defended Mr. Johnson successfully in two suits filed to prevent his running simultaneously as a Vice Presidential and a Senatorial candidate.

The law firm of Fulbright, Croker, Freeman, Bates and Jaworski, employs 140 lawyers, occupies five floors of a downtown Houston office building and has offices in Washington and Mexico City.

He was born in Waco, Texas, the son of a Baptist minister.

From: Polish American Journal, March 14, 1970

Ed Note: He is also the author of: "Confession and Avoidance: A memoir" by Leon Jaworski with Micket Herskowit; Anchor Press, Doubleday and Co.; Garden City, NY, 1979 and "The Right and the Power: The Prosecution of Watergate" by Leon Jaworski, Reader's Digest Press; New York 1976.

Leon Jaworski biography [Arrow Picture]

The Right and the Power (book) [Arrow Picture]