Berl bernhard biography
Berl bernhard biography
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Interviewer
Brien Williams
Subject Headings
Baseball, Legal career, Maine gubernatorial campaign (1974), Majority Leader, Middle East, Muskie vice presidential campaign (1968), Presidential campaign (1972), Red Cross/ 911 Liberty Fund, Secretary of State appointment (1996), U.S.
Senate retirement
Abstract
Biographical Note
Berl Bernhard was born in New York City on September 7, 1929, to Morris and Celia (Nadele) Bernhard. He grew up in New Jersey, then attended Dartmouth College, graduating in 1951, and took his law degree at Yale Law School in 1954.
His law career began in Washington as a law clerk to Luther Youngdahl. In the late 1950s he took a position on the Civil Rights Commission, and he was appointed staff director by John Kennedy in 1961.
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In 1963 he returned to private practice and in 1965 became counsel to the Democratic Senate Campaign Committee. He met George Mitchell while working on Senator Muskie's 1968 vice presidential campaign. He served as national ca