Peter Edelman
Professor, Person
1938 –
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Who is Peter Edelman?
Peter B. Edelman is a lawyer, policy maker, and law professor at Georgetown University Law Center, specializing in the fields of poverty, welfare, juvenile justice, and constitutional law. He worked for Senator Robert F. Kennedy, and for the Clinton Administration, where he resigned to protest Clinton's signing the welfare reform legislation. Edelman grew up in Minneapolis, Minnesota. His father worked as a lawyer and his mother worked as a homemaker. Edelman is married to Marian Wright Edelman, president and founder of the Children's Defense Fund.
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- Born
- Jan 9, 1938
Minneapolis - Spouses
- Marian Wright Edelman
(1968/07 - )
- Marian Wright Edelman
- Nationality
- United States of America
- Profession
- Education
- Harvard Law School
- Harvard University
- Harvard College
- Bachelor of Arts
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on July 23, 2013
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