Abner J. Mikva

Abner Joseph Mikva ( born January 21, 1926 in Milwaukee, Wisconsin ) is a retired American lawyer and politician. Between 1969 and 1979 he represented two times the state of Illinois in the U.S. House of Representatives; then he became a federal judge and legal advisor to the White House under President Bill Clinton.

Career

Abner Mikva attended the public schools of his home. In the final stages of World War II he served in the years 1944 and 1945 in the United States Army Air Corps. After a subsequent law studies at the University of Chicago and his 1951 was admitted as a lawyer, he began to work in this profession. In 1951 and 1952 he was on the staff of the Federal Judge Sherman Minton. At the same time he proposed as a member of the Democratic Party launched a political career. Between 1956 and 1966 he was a delegate in the House of Representatives from Illinois.

In the congressional elections of 1968 Milkva was in the second electoral district of Illinois in the U.S. House of Representatives in Washington DC chosen, where he became the successor of Barratt O'Hara on January 3, 1969. After a re-election he was able to initially complete two terms in Congress until January 3, 1973. These were determined by the events of the Vietnam War and the civil rights movement. In 1972 he was not re-elected. He then became a member of the Ethics Committee of the State of Illinois. He also worked as an attorney in Chicago and as a professor of law at Northwestern University.

In the elections of 1974, Mikva was elected to Congress again in the tenth district of his state, where he Samuel H. Young replaced on January 3, 1975. After two re- elections he could remain until his resignation on 26 September 1979 in the U.S. House of Representatives. He resigned his seat in order to follow the vocation to the judge at the U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia by President Jimmy Carter. Since 1991, he served as successor to Patricia Wald presided in this court. On September 19, 1994, he went as a judge to be in retirement to White House Counsel under Bill Clinton. He held this position until the following year.

As a long -time supporter of Barack Obama Abner Mikva also engaged in the Presidential campaigns in 2008 and 2012.

Trivia

Mikva, in 1993, a small role in the movie Dave. He played himself as a judge who takes his oath of office to the new U.S. president.