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William Ruckelshaus
(1932-)

1st Head of Environmental Protection Agency

birthdate: July 24
birthplace:
Indianapolis, Indiana

William Doyle Ruckelshaus served as the very first head of the Environmental Protection Agency in 1970 and did much to help create the infrastructure and set the course of the EPA's activities. He headed the agency until 1973, when he was appointed by President Nixon to serve as acting Director of the FBI and then Deptuy US Attorney General. In a famous act known as the 'Satuarday Night Massacre' Ruckelshaus and his boss resigned, rather than fire the special Watergate prosecutor as the President directed them.

When the EPA was in trouble in 1983, President Reagan called on Ruckelshaus to serve as interim director for a couple years to help the agency rebuild its tarnished image. Ruckelshaus was appointed by President Clinton in 1999 to serve as the US envoy for the Pacific Salmon Treaty and President Bush appointed him to serve on the US Commission on Ocean Policy to make recommendations for a national ocean policy. William Ruckelshaus currently serves as a director of several coprorations and is on the board of numerous commissions and non profit organizations working to create more sustainable national environmental policies.


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