Robert Treuhaft
Robert Treuhaft | |
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Born | New York |
August 8, 1912
Died | Script error: The function "death_date_and_age" does not exist. New York |
Alma mater | Harvard, Harvard Law School |
Occupation | Attorney, political activist |
Robert Edward "Bob" Treuhaft (August 8, 1912 – November 11, 2001) was an American lawyer and the second husband of Jessica Mitford.[1]
The son of Hungarian immigrants,[2] he graduated from Harvard in 1934 and attained his law degree from Harvard Law School in 1937.[3] He worked for labor union and radical left causes much of his life. From the early-to-mid-1940s to 1958 he and Mitford were members of the Communist Party USA, leaving the party after Khrushchev's revelations about the Stalin era.[4]
Treuhaft was admitted to the California Bar in 1944,[5]and in 1945 he began at the Oakland, California law firm Grossman, Sawyer, & Edises and in 1963 founded his own Oakland-based firm Treuhaft, Walker, and Bernstein,[3] where Hillary Rodham Clinton worked as a summer intern in 1971.[6]In 1963 he provided Mitford with background and legal information that was important for Mitford's best-selling exposé of the funeral industry, which he also unofficially co-authored, The American Way of Death.[7]
In 1964 Treuhaft represented more than 700 Free Speech Movement students arrested during a two-day sit-in at the University of California in Berkeley. He and his firm also represented anti-Vietnam War protesters, Black Panther Party, the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (SNCC), the Congress of Racial Equality (CORE). [3]
Before his death Treuhaft specified that any memorial donations be sent to "Send a Piana to Havana" project, which was started by his son Benjamin Treuhaft, whom the State Department had prevented from taking a piano to the embargoed island.[8]
References
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- ↑ Childhood and Family Life in New York; Undergraduate Education; Harvard Law School (interview with Bob Treuhaft, 1988) cdlib.org. Page 2.
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- ↑ "Bay Area Funeral Society; The American Way of Death; Berkeley Co-op Activities; Resigning from the Communist Party" (Interview with Bob Treuhaft, 1988) cdlib.org. Pages 70-72.
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External links
- Consumers Cooperative of Berkeley Oral History Collection
- Spartacus Educational biography
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- Lua error in package.lua at line 80: module 'strict' not found.. (archived from mitford.org)
- Photographs of Robert Treuhaft cdlib.org
- Send a Piana to Havana
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