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Nicholas deB. Katzenbach

Nicholas Katzenbach
Nicholas Katzenbach at White House, 6 May 1968.jpg
65th United States Attorney General
In office
February 11, 1965 – October 2, 1966
Acting: September 4, 1964 – January 28, 1965
President Lyndon B. Johnson
Preceded by Robert Kennedy
Succeeded by Ramsey Clark
24th United States Under Secretary of State
In office
October 3, 1966 – January 20, 1969
President Lyndon B. Johnson
Preceded by George Ball
Succeeded by Elliot Richardson
5th United States Deputy Attorney General
In office
April 16, 1962 – January 28, 1965
President John F. Kennedy
Lyndon B. Johnson
Preceded by Byron White
Succeeded by Ramsey Clark
Personal details
Born Nicholas deBelleville Katzenbach
(1922-01-17)January 17, 1922
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, U.S.
Died May 8, 2012(2012-05-08) (aged 90)
Skillman, New Jersey, U.S.
Political party Democratic
Spouse(s) Lydia King Phelps Stokes
Children John Katzenbach (writer)
Christopher W. Katzenbach
Maria 'Mimi' Katzenbach (novelist)
Anne deBelleville Katzenbach
Parents Edward L. Katzenbach
Marie Hilson
Education Phillips Exeter Academy
Princeton University
Yale Law School
Balliol College, Oxford
Military service
Allegiance  United States
Service/branch US Army Air Corps Hap Arnold Wings.svg U.S. Army Air Forces
Unit Eighth Air Force
Battles/wars World War II

Nicholas deBelleville "Nick" Katzenbach (January 17, 1922 – May 8, 2012) was an American lawyer who served as United States Attorney General during the Lyndon B. Johnson administration.

Katzenbach was born in Philadelphia and raised in Trenton. His parents were Edward L. Katzenbach, who served as Attorney General of New Jersey, and Marie Hilson Katzenbach, who was the first female president of the New Jersey State Board of Education. His uncle, Frank S. Katzenbach, served as Mayor of Trenton, New Jersey and as a Justice of the New Jersey Supreme Court.

He was named after his mother's great-great-grandfather, Nicholas de Belleville (1753–1831), a French physician who accompanied Kazimierz Pułaski to America and settled in Trenton in 1778. Katzenbach was raised an Episcopalian, and was partly of German descent.

He attended Phillips Exeter Academy and was accepted into Princeton University. Katzenbach was a junior at Princeton in 1941, enlisting right after Pearl Harbor, and served in the United States Army Air Corps in World War II. Assigned as a navigator in the 381st Bomb Squadron, 310th Bomb Group in North Africa. His B-25 Mitchell Bomber was shot down February 23, 1943, over the Mediterranean Sea off North Africa. He spent over two years as a prisoner of war in Italian and German POW camps, including Stalag Luft III, the site of the "Great Escape", which Katzenbach assisted in. He read extensively as a prisoner, and ran an informal class based on Principles of Common Law.


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