Roger C. Cramton
# Roger C. Cramton

Roger Conant Cramton (May 18, 1929 – February 3, 2017) was appointed by President Richard M. Nixon to be chairman of the Administrative Conference of the United States in 1970, and in 1972 became the assistant attorney general in charge of the Office of Legal Counsel in the Department of Justice. He was known for voicing opposition to Nixon during the Watergate scandal.

In 1973, Cramton became the Dean of Cornell Law School in 1973. He was also appointed by President Gerald Ford to be the first chairman of the Legal Services Corporation, a post that Hillary Clinton filled immediately after Cramton's tenure there.

## Education and career

Cramton graduated from Harvard University with an A.B., magna cum laude, in 1950. He earned his J.D. degree from the University of Chicago Law School in 1955. He served a law clerk to associate justice Harold Hitz Burton of the Supreme Court of the United States from 1956 to 1957.

## Personal life

He was married to Harriet until his death in 2017. He had four children, Ann Kopinski, Charles Cramton, Peter Cramton, and Cutter Cramton. He also had two sisters, 11 grandchildren and 21 great-grandchildren.

