Everything about William Saxbe totally explained
William Bart Saxbe (born
June 24,
1916) was an
American politician of the
Republican Party, who served as a
U.S. Senator from
Ohio and as
U.S. Attorney General under Presidents
Richard Nixon and
Gerald R. Ford.
Saxbe was born in
Mechanicsburg, Ohio, and received a
bachelor's degree from the
Ohio State University (
Columbus, Ohio), Class of 1940, where he was a member of the
Chi Phi Fraternity. He served in the military during
World War II, from
1940 to
1945 and during the
Korean War, from
1951 to
1952. In
1948, Saxbe received a
law degree from Ohio State University and afterwards practiced law in Columbus.
Saxbe served as an Ohio state representative from
1947 to
1954. He was then elected Ohio attorney general, defeating
Democrat Stephen M. Young, and held that office from
1963 to
1968. He was a member of the Ohio Crime Commission from
1967 to
1968. In
1968, Saxbe was elected to the U.S. Senate, defeating Democrat
John J. Gilligan. He served in the Senate until
1974, when he was appointed U.S. attorney general. (There was some minor controversy regarding Saxbe's appointment, as it appeared that it violated a minor provision of the Constitution. That provision stated that a legislator couldn't be appointed to an executive position during the same term that the legislator and legislature had voted to increase the salary of said position. However, because there was no perception that anything
intentional had been done to benefit Saxbe, the matter was widely ignored.) Gilligan, who had been elected
Governor of Ohio in
1970, appointed
Howard Metzenbaum to fill out Saxbe's term. Later that year, former astronaut
John Glenn, another Democrat, was elected to replace Saxbe.
Saxbe served as attorney general until
1975, when he was appointed
United States Ambassador to India, in which capacity he served until
1977. After that, Saxbe returned to Mechanicsburg and resumed the practice of law.
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