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Nominee Coleman Sharp and Skilled Philadelphia Lawyer Named Transportation Secretary Nominee
William Thaddeus Coleman Jr., a longtime civil rights advocate and transportation law expert, was nominated by President Ford to be Secretary of Transportation. A Harvard and Penn graduate, Coleman clerked for Justice Frankfurter and held key roles with NAACP Legal and Educational Defense Fund and the Warren Commission. He served in the Army Air Corps, became a partner at Dilworth Paxson, and is married with three children.
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William Thaddeus Coleman Jr
Ford
Legal and Educational Defense Fund, Inc
National Association For the Advancement of Colored People
Coleman
Supreme Court
White House
Felix Frankfurter
Harvard Law School
Elliot L. Richardson
Britain
Richardson
Rece
Justice Frankfurter
Harvard
University of Pennsylvania
Army Air Corps
Philadelphia
Germantown
Frankfurter
New York City
Dilworth, Paxson, Kalish and Levy
Lovida Hardin
Boston University
New Orleans
William T. Coleman III
Williams College
Yale Law School
United States
Maine
Lovida H. Coleman Jr
Radcliffe
Hardin L. Coleman
Milliams College