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Roger C. Cramton

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In 1973, Cramton became the Dean of Cornell Law School in 1973. He was also appointed by President Gerald Ford to be the first chairman of the Legal Services Corporation, a post that Hillary Clinton filled immediately after Cramton's tenure there.

Education and career

Cramton graduated from Harvard University with an A.B., magna cum laude, in 1950. He earned his J.D. degree from the University of Chicago Law School in 1955. He served a law clerk to associate justice Harold Hitz Burton of the Supreme Court of the United States from 1956 to 1957.

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