Samuel Dash
| Samuel Dash link NNDB (Lawyer, academic) | |
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| Born | February 27, 1925 Camden, New Jersey |
| Died | 2004-05-29 |
| Nationality | American |
| Alma mater | Temple University, Harvard Law School |
| Religion | Jewish |
| Parents | Joseph and Ida Dash |
| Children | Judi Dash, Rachel Dash |
| Spouse | Sara Dash |
Member of the Watergate commission. | |
Samuel Dash was an American lawyer. He was chief counsel for the Senate Watergate Committee during the Watergate scandal. Dash became famous for his televised interrogations during the hearings held by the United States Congress on the Watergate incident.
Career
In 1955 he became a district attorney in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, but he later went into private practice.
Dash became a law professor at Georgetown University, where he was working when he was requested to assist United States Senator Sam Ervin, head of the Senate Committee charged to investigate the possible involvement of President Richard Nixon in an attempted break in, and its subsequent cover up, of offices used by the Democratic Party at the Watergate Hotel in Washington, D.C. He was given a leave of absence by the university to take on this position.[1]
Two decades later, Dash was again in the news after resigning his post as ethics adviser to independent counsel Kenneth Starr. After working for the investigation for four years, Dash resigned to protest Starr's appearance before the United States House Committee on the Judiciary. Dash felt that Starr was acting as an "aggressive advocate" instead of an impartial investigator.