"University of Chicago" Edward H. Levi Signed TLS Dated 1991 COA For Sale

EdwardHirsch Levi(June26, 1911 – March 7, 2000) was an American law professor, academic leader, andgovernment lawyer. He served as dean of theUniversity of Chicago Law Schoolfrom1950 to 1962, president of theUniversity of Chicagofrom 1968 to1975, and then asUnited States Attorney GeneralintheFord Administration. Levi is regularly cited asthe "model of a modern attorney general",the "greatestlawyer of his time",and is credited with restoring order afterWatergate.Heis considered, along with Yale'sWhitneyGriswold, the greatest of postwar American university presidents. Leviwas born inChicago,Illinois,the son of Elsa B. (Hirsch) and Gerson B. Levi, a rabbi from Scotland. Hismaternal grandfather was Reform rabbiEmil Gustav Hirsch, son of the Germanphilosopher and rabbiSamuel Hirsch. He received his A.B.Phi BetaKappafromthe undergraduate collegeoftheUniversity of Chicagoin 1932, andlater his J.D. at theUniversity of Chicago Law Schoolin1935. The following year he was named an assistant professor of law attheLaw Schooland wasadmitted to the Illinois bar. He earned aJ.S.D.fromYale LawSchool, where he was also a Sterling Fellow in 1938. DuringWorld War IIheserved as a special assistant to theAttorney General of the United States.In 1945, he returned to theUniversity of Chicago Law Schoolandwas named dean of the law school in 1950. In 1950, he also worked as chiefcounselforthe Subcommittee on Monopoly Power of theU.S. House Committee on the Judiciary.He resigned as law school dean and becameprovostof the university in 1962. He wasa member of theWhite House Central Group on Domestic Affairsin1964, theWhite House Task Force on Educationfrom 1966 to1967 and thePresident's Task Force on Priorities in Higher Educationfrom1969 to 1970. He became the University of Chicago's president in 1968, servinguntil 1975, whenPresidentGerald R.Fordappointed him 71st Attorney General of the United States.Levi was the firstJewishAttorney General of the United States. During hispresidency of the University of Chicago he refused to call the Chicago CityPolice to evict students occupying the university administrative building. Duringhis term as Attorney General, he issued a set of guidelines (in 1976) to limitthe activities of theFBI. These guidelines required the FBI to show evidence ofacrimebeforeusing secret police techniques likewiretapsorentering someone's home without warning. These guidelines were replaced by newones issued in 1983 byRonald Reagan'sAttorney General,William French Smith. He urged PresidentFord to appointRobert Bork, who was his former student andSolicitor General, or fellow ChicagoanJohn PaulStevensto theUnited States Supreme Court, and Fordfollowed his advice.Levi later testified in support of Bork at hisconfirmation hearing.Servingunder him, in various high staff positions, were such people asRudolphGiuliani,Robert Bork,AntoninScalia,Rex E. Lee, andArthur Raymond Randolph. Levi filed alawsuit preventing the formation of theWestheimerIndependent School District, a proposed school district in Texasthat was to break away from theHouston Independent School District,on the grounds of theU.S. Voting Rights Actas his lastofficial action before leaving his post as Attorney General.