Mudge Rose Guthrie Alexander and Ferdon

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Mudge Rose Guthrie Alexander & Ferdon was a prominent New York City law firm tracing its origin back to 1869. The firm is known best as the legal launching pad of Richard M. Nixon. For the period during which Nixon was a senior partner, the firm was renamed to Nixon, Mudge, Rose, Guthrie, Alexander & Mitchell.

The firm employed some 190 lawyers at the time of dissolution in 1995. Among problems that ultimately destroyed the firm were a long internal fight for leadership, management, and significant client defections.

Notable alumni and employees

Pat Buchanan, an American politician, author, syndicated columnist, and broadcaster

William P. Ford, defender of civil rights for Salvadorans.

Randolph H. Guthrie, chairman of the Studebaker corporation and later of Studebaker-Worthington.

Elizabeth Blodgett Hall, headmistress for Concord Academy

James Halpern, a judge of the United States Tax Court

Lewis "Scooter" Libby, a former Assistant to Vice President Dick Cheney and President George W. Bush

John N. Mitchell, United States Attorney General

Richard M. Nixon, the thirty-seventh President of the United States

Leonard Garment, White House Counsel after the resignation of John Dean

Ralph Oman, former Register of Copyrights of the United States

Jed S. Rakoff, a United States District Judge for the Southern District of New York

John Sears, an attorney and a Republican political strategist.

Gordon C. Strachan, aide to White House Chief of Staff H.R. "Bob" Haldeman under U.S. President Richard Nixon

Gao Xiqing, General Manager of the China Investment Corporation

Hanns-Eberhard Schleyer, German lawyer and son of Hanns-Martin Schleyer

Carolyn Clark Campbell, Clerk Of Court, United States Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit

References

Mudge Rose Guthrie Alexander & Ferdon Wikipedia

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