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Eric Holder
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United States Attorney General from 2009 to 2015
OverviewAI-generated
Eric Holder is an American judge, lawyer, and politician who served as the United States Attorney General and United States Deputy Attorney General. Born in The Bronx in 1951, he is a member of the Democratic Party and a member of the African American ethnic group. Holder was educated at Stuyvesant High School, Columbia University, and Columbia Law School. He has also held the position of justice minister and is affiliated with the Episcopal Church.
Holder is an author with 32 works listed, including *Pursuing Justice*, *Bella Ciao (French Edition)*, *Festins de basse-cour*, *Mademoiselle Chambon*, and *Our Unfinished March*. He is a member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences and has been employed by George Washington University. Holder speaks English.
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Person · Open Library
- Works
- 32
Top works
- Pursuing Justice
- Bella Ciao (French Edition)
- Festins de basse-cour
- Mademoiselle Chambon
- Our Unfinished March
via Open Library + Wikidata
Listeners · Last.fm
- Listeners
- 59
- Total plays
- 94
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Recent publications · Crossref
5 total works indexed
- Gene set enrichment analysis: A knowledge-based approach for interpreting genome-wide expression profiles
· 2005 · cited 48,854x
- UCSF Chimera—A visualization system for exploratory research and analysis
· 2004 · cited 44,335x
- SciPy 1.0: fundamental algorithms for scientific computing in Python
· 2020 · cited 36,538x
- The Genome Analysis Toolkit: A MapReduce framework for analyzing next-generation DNA sequencing data
· 2010 · cited 26,085x
- Array programming with NumPy
· 2020 · cited 23,475x
via Crossref · CC0
Quotes
- “It's hard for me to see how members of al Qaeda could be considered prisoners of war. I think they clearly do not fit within the prescriptions of the Geneva Convention.”
- “When you compare what people endured in the South in the 60s to try to get the right to vote for African Americans, and to compare what people were subjected to there to what happened in Philadelphia—which was inappropriate, certainly that…to describe it in those terms I think does a great disservice to people who put their lives on the line, who risked all, for my people.”
- “[I] can’t actually imagine a time in which the need for more diversity would ever cease. Affirmative action has been an issue since segregation practices. The question is not when does it end, but when does it begin [..] When do people of color truly get the benefits to which they are entitled?”
- “"It has come to my attention that you have now asked an additional question: ‘Does the President have the authority to use a weaponized drone to kill an American not engaged in combat on American soil?’" Holder wrote. "The answer to that question is no."”
- “Michelle [Obama] always says, ‘When they go low, we go high.’ No. When they [Republicans] go low, we kick them."”
- “"When I say we, you know, ‘We kick ‘em,’ I don’t mean we do anything inappropriate. We don’t do anything illegal. But we got to be tough, and we have to fight for the very things that [civil rights leaders] John Lewis, Martin Luther King, Whitney Young – you know, all those folks gave to us.””
via Wikiquote · CC BY-SA
Key facts
- President
- Barack Obama
- Deputy
- David W. Ogden , Gary Grindler (acting), James M. Cole , Sally Yates (acting)
- Preceded by
- Michael Mukasey
- Succeeded by
- Loretta Lynch
- Appointed by
- Ronald Reagan
- Born
- Eric Himpton Holder Jr. , ( 1951-01-21 ) January 21, 1951 (age 75) , New York City, New York, U.S.
- Party
- Democratic
- Spouse
- Sharon Malone ( married</span>"}]]}'>m. 1990 )
- Relatives
- Vivian Malone Jones (sister-in-law), Jeff Malone (nephew)
- Education
- Columbia University ( BA , JD )
via Wikipedia infobox
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Encyclopedic overview
Eric Himpton Holder Jr. (born January 21, 1951) is an American lawyer who served as the 82nd United States attorney general from 2009 to 2015. A member of the Democratic Party, Holder was the first African American to hold the position.
Born in New York City to a middle-class family of Bajan origin, Holder graduated from Stuyvesant High School, Columbia College, and Columbia Law School. Following law school, he worked for the Public Integrity Section of the U.S. Department of Justice for twelve years. He next served as a judge of the Superior Court of the District of Columbia before being appointed by President Bill Clinton as U.S. attorney for the District of Columbia and subsequently U.S. deputy attorney general.
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