Rauh, Joseph L. Jr.
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Son of Joseph L. and Sara (Weiler) R.; Married to Olie Westheimer, Sept. 1, 1935; children:
B.- Michael? Carl S.
GENDER Male
BIRTH-DATE January 3, 1911
BIRTHPLACE Cin.
DIED September 3, 1992
ADDRESS Home, Washington, D.C.
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OCCUPATION 4230 – lawyer
CAREER Wayne Morse chair U. Oreg., 1989; regents’ lectr. U. Cafif.-San Diego, 1990.
posmoNS HELD gen. counsel, Miners for Democracy, 1970-72; .emeritus, 1992-;
gen.counsel, Leadership Conf, on Civil Rights, 1940-92; gen. counsel, UAW, 1963-66;
Washing?on counsel, UAW, 1951-63,; mem., Rauh & Silard anc:lsuccessor firms, 1961-87;
mem., Rauh & Levy, Washington, 1947.-61; gen. dep. housing expediter, Vets. Emergency
Housing Program, 1946-47; since practiced in, Washington; counsel various govt. agys.,
1935-42; Law sec. supreme ct.justices, Cardozo and Frankfurter, 1936-39
LAW Civil rights; Federal civil litigation; Labor
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BS, Harvard U., 1932; LLB, Harvard U., 1935; LHD (hon.), Hebrew Union Coll., 1978; LLD
(hon.), Georgetown U., 1990
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CERTIFICATES Bar: D.C. 1946
CREATIVE WORKS Author articles civil rights and liberties.
CIVIC/MILITARY Trustee Antioch Law Sch. and successor D.C. Sch. Law, 1980-; nat. bd. dirs.
NAACP; vice chmn. D.C. Dem. Com., 1952-64, chmn., 1964-67, del. Dem. Nat. Conv., 1948,
52, 60, 64, 80. Lt. col. AUS, 1942-45.
AWARDS Decorated Legion of Merit, Disting. Service Star P.I.; recipient Civil Riqhts award
Am. Jewish Congress, 1963, Florina Lasker Civil Liberties award, 1965, Oliver Wendell
Holmes award ACLU, 1967, Isaiah award Am. Jewish Com., 1972, Nat. Congress Hispanic
Citizens award, 1976,Four Freedoms award, 1983, Leadership Conf. Humphrey Civil Rights
award, 1984, Bearer of Light award Union Am. Hebrew Congregations, 1985, Eugene V. Debs
Found. award, 1986, Marshall-Wythe medallion Williamand Mary Coll., 1987, Common Cause
award, 1987, Alliance for Justiceaward, 1987, ACLU Medal of Liberty, 1987, Antioch Law Sch.
award, 1988, Mass. Sr. Action Council award, 1988. Cin. ACLU award, 1988, LDF award
NAACP, 1989, Am. Assn. for Affirmative Action award, 1990, Pro Bono award NAACPLDF,
1990, Martin Luther King award B’nai B’rith, 1991; fellow Brandeis U., 1969-; hon. fellow U.
Pa. Law Sch., 1970; JohnF. Kennedy Meml. fellow N.Z., 1974.
MEMBERSHIPS Mem. Ams. for Dem. Action (chmn. exec. com. 1947-52, vice chmn. 1952-55,
57 , nat. chmn. 1955-57) -Bl