Ruckelshaus, William Doyle, 1932-2019
William Doyle Ruckelshaus was born July 24, 1932, in Indianapolis, Indiana. He was Deputy Attorney General of Indiana from 1960 through 1965, and a member of the Indiana House of Representatives and its majority leader from 1967 to 1969.
In 1969, President Richard M. Nixon appointed him Assistant Attorney General in charge of the Civil Division for the Department of Justice. He became the Environmental Protection Agency's first Administrator when the agency was formed in December 1970, and served until April 1973. In April 1973 he was appointed acting director of the Federal Bureau of Investigation, and in the same year was appointed Deputy Attorney General of the Department of Justice. In a 1973 event known as the "Saturday Night Massacre", Ruckelshaus and Attorney General Elliot Richardson, famously resigned their positions at the Department of Justice rather than obey an order from President Richard M. Nixon to fire the Watergate special prosecutor, Archibald Cox, who was investigating official misconduct on the part of the president and his aides. After leaving the Justice Department, he returned to the private sector and the practice of law, serving for a time as the Senior Vice-President of Legal Affairs of Weyerhaeuser.
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