Author: Emily Langer

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A prominent figure in Washington as well as on Wall Street, he rallied donors in the financial industry behind Bill Clinton’s first presidential campaign.

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As executive director of AIPAC in the 1970s, he helped turn the group into one of the most effective lobbying organizations in Washington.

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He played a key role in ongoing efforts to reshape voting laws and dismantle affirmative action and was also a personal attorney to President Donald Trump.

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He helped shape some of the most significant federal laws of the past 50 years, becoming an eminence of Capitol Hill in his own right.

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One of few women in her era to practice criminal law, she helped win the release of two Florida defendants known as the Death Row Brothers.

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The federal appeals court judge was celebrated among conservatives as a constant if sometimes provocative exponent of judicial restraint

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He signed one of the strongest gun-control laws in the country but lost his bid for reelection as governor over a massive increase in taxes.

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He was credited with bringing transformative change to his city as mayor in the 1970s and was the patriarch of a Democratic dynasty.

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The son of a Philadelphia street cleaner, he led the American Federation of State, County and Municipal Employees for three decades.