Alberto Gonzales, Date of Birth, Place of Birth

    

Alberto Gonzales

80th United States Attorney General

Date of Birth: 04-Aug-1955

Place of Birth: San Antonio, Texas, United States

Profession: judge, lawyer, politician

Nationality: United States

Zodiac Sign: Leo


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About Alberto Gonzales

  • Alberto R.
  • Gonzales (born August 4, 1955) is an American lawyer who served as the 82nd United States Attorney General, appointed in February 2005 by President George W.
  • Bush, becoming the highest-ranking Hispanic American in executive government to date.
  • He was the first Hispanic to serve as White House Counsel.
  • Earlier he had been Bush's General Counsel during his governorship of Texas.
  • Gonzales had also served as Secretary of State of Texas and then as a Texas Supreme Court Justice. Gonzales's tenure as U.S.
  • Attorney General was marked by controversy regarding warrantless surveillance of U.S.
  • citizens and the legal authorization of so-called "enhanced interrogation techniques", later generally acknowledged as constituting torture, in the U.S.
  • government's post-9/11 "War on Terror".
  • Gonzales had also presided over the firings of several U.S.
  • Attorneys who had refused back-channel White House directives to prosecute political enemies, allegedly causing the office of Attorney General to become improperly politicized.
  • Following calls for his removal, Gonzales resigned from the office "in the best interests of the department," on August 27, 2007, effective September 17, 2007.In 2008, Gonzales began a mediation and consulting practice.
  • Additionally, he taught a political science course and served as a diversity recruiter at Texas Tech University.
  • Gonzales is currently the Dean of Belmont University College of Law, in Nashville, Tennessee, where he currently teaches Constitutional Law, Separation of Powers, National Security Law and First Amendment Law.
  • He was formerly Of Counsel at a Nashville-based law firm, Waller Lansden Dortch & Davis, LLP where he advised clients on special matters, government investigations and regulatory matters.
  • He often writes opinion pieces for national newspapers and appears on national news programs.

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